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It was created to help territories become states and guaranteed that new states would be equal to the original 13. -
The constitution is Americas laws and it was signed. -
It helped let in new states and stop slave trade. -
Nat Turner started this rebellion and killed around 55 white people. -
The Gag Rule was created to stop people from talking about slavery.
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This war was over weather Texas stopped on the Nueces River (which the Mexican claimed) or the Rio Grande (which the U.S. claimed).
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This law said that neither slavery nor involuntary shall ever exist. -
Harriet Tubman escaped to Philadelphia in 1849 and then went back19 times and rescued over 300 people. -
The Fugitive Slave Act was changed and the slave trade in Washington D.C. was stopped. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin was an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. -
This was when repeated outbreaks of violent riots between anti-slavery and pro-slavery people.
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Dred Scott was a slave that was taken into a free state by his enslaver then he went to court because he thought he should be free. The courts decision was that no African Americans could ever be citizens of the U.S. -
The Lincoln Douglas debate was seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. -
This was when John Brown raided the Harpers Ferry to get weapons to free enslaved people. -
This was when Abraham Lincoln was elected president. -
This is when South Carolina left the U.S. President Lincoln didn't like them doing this and told them it was illegal. -
This war started because of the dispute over slavery.