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The states wanted to keep a balance of power between slave and free states. Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state. The south did not like this because it meant that the government could make laws about slaves.
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California wanted to be added as free state. This messes up the balances of free states and slave states. This made the Fugitive Slave Act be fixed and ended the slave trade in Washington DC. This upset the south because more power was now in the free states.
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It was a law that required run away slaves to be returned to the slave owners. Even if they were in a free state, the slave had to go back to the slave state. This put pressure on people to take sides of slavery. This made people very tense.
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This is a anti slavery book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was about a slave named Tom. It showed Tom's owner as being brutal and Tom is whipped to death after he doesn't tell where some runaway slaves are. The north read this book and started to want to end slavery. The south didn't like this because they wanted to keep slavery.
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This got rid of the Missouri Compromise. It made two new territories. It allowed the people in those areas to decide if they wanted to be a free state or slave state. This made people mad at each other. The free states and the slave states started fighting with each other about what the new territories would be.
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This was a very violent time near Kansas. Free states and slave states were fighting each other. These fights were the start of the Civil War. People from both sides wanted it their way and fighting began.
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Eli Whitney was an inventor. He created a machine for separating cotton from its seeds. He thought it would need less slaves, but it made the slave population increase because demand for cotton increased. In the South, they made money from cotton and the slaves. The South wanted to keep slaves and the slave trade to make money.
