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Abolitionist Movement
1830-1860 many joined the movement to end slavery.
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Civil War Causes
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Mexican American War
Started the fighting over whether or not slavery would be legal in these states
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Compromise of 1850
5 bills that were an attempt to settle disputes between slave states and free states
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriot Beecher Stowe wrote an anti slavery book that changed people’s views of slaves and slavery
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Kansas Nebraska Act / Bleeding Kansas
Nebraska was to be free state, but Kansas brought fights
Bleeding Kansas led to fighting and disagreements
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The Caning of Sumner
1856 Democratic pro-slavery Rep Preston Brooks from SC attacked Republican Senator Charles Sumner an abolitionist from Massachusetts after a speech. He was bleeding and unconscious. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott and his wife fought for freedom after being moved from slave to free state. He was freed, enslaved again, and the US Supreme Court held them as slaves, which made anti slavery Americans mad
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Lincoln Douglas Debate
1858 debates between Lincoln and Douglas in senatorial race that focused on slavery. Divided the nation even more based on who a person supported as a candidate.
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John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown led 21 men to Harper’s Ferry to try to take the armory in opposition of slavery.
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Election of 1860
People had been fighting and disagreeing over slavery for years, and the election brought out the worst in people and pushed them to war.
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