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With the Mexican war over, America could now go to other places in the west and south such as California, Utah, Texas, etc.
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The 9 events that led to the most bloody war for Americans, The Civil War.
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this made any officer that did not arrest a run away slave pay a fine for not arresting them
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this showed the real evils of slavery
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Let the kansas territories to decied if they wanted to be free or slave states
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attacked Charles Sumner with a cane after Sumner had given a speech attacking the pro-slavery forces for the violence occurring in Kansas.
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Dred Scott lost his case for proving that he was a slave in a free state.
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When the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, Kansas was allowed to determine whether it would enter the union as free or slave.
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John Brown was a radical abolitionist who had been involved in anti-slavery violence in Kansas. On October 16, 1859, he led a group of seventeen including five black members to raid the arsenal located in Harper's Ferry, Virginia
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the south seperated from the union because Abraham Lincoln was elected presiedent of the United States. South Carolina had warned him about the south seperating if he was elected.
