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admitted Missourri as a slave state
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cotton produced in the American South earned more money than any other US state combined
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Period: to
US victory of the Mexican war
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compromise of 1850
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
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Dred Scott sued for is freedom.
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Civil War begins.
Linclontried making peace, but when he resupplied the troops at Fort Summner, confederate forces fired at the fort. Lincoln's call for 75,ooo volunteers to put down the rebellion tod Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas to join the Confederacy. This is the beginning of the Civil War.