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Slave Codes
Northerners see slave codes as a cruel and unfair way to treat slaves. Southerners see this as a fair way to treat them. -
Sectionalism
The North had free slave states and the South had slave states. -
Abolitionists
Northerners support abolitionists for trying to end slavery. Southerners despise them for trying to end slavery and ending their power over them. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner started a rebellion and it failed and they died in a "Trial" but the slave owners was scared so they made stricter rules like the slave codes. North saw this as not fair and mean. South saw this a necessary decision to do. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The South are happy that slave have to come back to their owners. The north are mad about being forced to go back to slavery. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
The congress decided if states can be a free state or a slave state. This law made it official if a state can be free or not. Confusion over the results of votes and caused a three year long war in Kansas. -
Dred Scot Decision
The North thinks African Americans should be citizens. The South does not want African Americans as Citizens. -
John Brown
John Brown started a rebellion and tried to get slaves to join him, The rebellion fails, but he is viewed as a hero in the north and south sees him as a murderer or terrorist -
Election of 1860
The South states left the Union and formed the confederates. The North stayed in the Union. -
Fort Sumter
It was the first fight of the Civil War