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declared missouri as a slave state and maine as a free state
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rebellion of slaves, rebels killed 55-65 people
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Proposal to keep all of the mexican territory from being free states, but was unsuccessful.
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Dispute over texas and mexican border
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Laws passed that dealt with slavery and territorial expansion
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Act that required runaway slaves to be returned to their owners
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Book about what it was like to be a slave working in the fields.
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Gave Abraham Lincoln the opportunity to announce the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Law that used popular sovereignty to determine whether states could have slavery or not.
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Several violent civil confrontations in Kansas
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dred scott was not allowed to sue because he was a slave
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John Brown tried to lead a slave rebellion though no slaves joined him, northerners saw him as a hero Southerners saw him as a terrorist.
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Abraham won election without a single southern vote
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representatives from 6 seceded states established a unified government
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Secedes from union, didn't want to be a slave state
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Union forces surrender fort sumter during this battle
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Union victory, bloodiest battle of the civil war
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Union got control of the Mississippi river
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Confederate General Robert E Lee surrenders his army to General Ulysses S. Grant
