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Slavery is the main cause of the civil war, and all other issues branch from it. Abolishonists wanted slavery gone because of how bad it was, but the south wanted to keep their slaves for money.
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The growth of the abolitionist movement was the movement to end slavery.Abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Harriet Tubman wrote newspapers, and publically spoke out against slavery which caused the growtg
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Dred Scott was a slave in the united states who unsuccsesfully sued for his freedom in the Dred Scott Vs. Stanford case of 1857
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A network of people who helped slaves run north.
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Sectionalism was judging people based off of where they came from in the country.
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A good public speaker and companion to Garrison for many years, went on to publish the north star
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The newspaper by Fredrick Douglas that was made to bring attention to slavery.
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The war betweeen Mexico and America that was started over a border dispute
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The idea that people should be able to decide the out come to dicisions, Democracy
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The law states that slaves can be caught even if they are in free states
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Uncle Tom's cabin was a book that caused upraor in the south, it gave people a new perspecitve on slavery
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John Brown killed 5 people with swords, he did this because he thought it was a proper punishment for all of the crimes the southerners commited in the north
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The series of debates that lincon and stephen douglas had about slavery
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The southern states did not like the idea of Abe Lincoln being the president of the United States of America, so they left the country to form their own
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Caused the southern states to sececede and form the confedesery. States including Lousisiana, Texans, and Georgia left the Union because Lincoln believed slavery was wrong and he didnt campaign in the south
