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Missouri Compromise
Maine is admitted as a free state so that Missouri can become a slave state without changing the slave state/free state ratio.
This Compromise sparked discussion regarding the future of acquiring statehood. It made people question the expansion of slavery in new territories growing during the peak of manifest destiny. It sparked sectionalism between slave states and free states.
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Publication of "Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World"
David Walker, a free black man, wrote book claiming freedom had to be fought for by slaves rather than slaves waiting to be granted freedom.
This contributed to sectionalism because the ideas in the book were controversial and, in the eyes of plantation owners, threatening and dangerous.
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Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
Nat Turner led the most successful slave revolt, killing 57 white people in one night. Two months later he was caught and hanged.
The plantation owners were scared that more slaves would be inspired to revolt.
This contributed to sectionalism because southerners were terrified and angry that there was still a growing amount of slave-sympathy in the north.
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Compromise of 1850
This Compromise made California a free state but established the Fugitive Slave Act.
It contributed to sectionalism because northern abolitionists strongly opposed the Fugitive Slave Act and southerners strongly opposed California's free state status.
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Publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this emotional, anti-slavery book and 300,000 copies were sold in just the first year. In one decade, 2 million copies were sold.
This spread and deepened anti-slavery sentiments throughout the north and upset southern states.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
This Act allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not slavery should exist within their borders.
It led to "Bleeding Kansas," which showed America that sectional tensions were so high that they would only be resolved with war and bloodshed.
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Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown attacked the biggest federal arsenal in the south. He fails because the slaves he had hoped would aid him did not show, and sentenced to death.
This contributed to the start of the Civil War because it showed that some abolitionists were willing to kill or be killed over the issue of slavery. The South felt defensive and passionate about their long-held rights to slavery.
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Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected president in this election. Lincoln was a northern republican who opposed slavery.
The South felt he did not adequately represent them at all, and they truly wanted to become independent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wIPEnlzsfghttp://www.timetoast.com (fake news or not) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RvoH_nJUDkhttp://www.timetoast.com
