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A proposal made by David Wilimot stating that congress ban slavery in any slavery won over from the Mexican - American war.
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The comprimise that would help both the North and the south get what they want, but fairly without ruining eachother and tearing eachother apart.
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Douglas chose to let the people decide weather or not the states became a free state or a slave state by popular sovergeigenty.
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An antislavery settler named John Brown led seven of his men to Pottawatomie creek, there he murderd five proslavery men.
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A novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe about an enslaved man who was beaten.
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A decision that was made by the supreme court that no slave could ever be considerd a citizen and Dred Scott was then no longer free.
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" A house diviided against itself can not stand." This was what lincoln said when he ran for senate angainst Douglas. Lincoln lost, but this was a very important speech.
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A raid that was formed in New England to set free enslaved people in the south by John Brown.
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The republicans choose lincoln as their canidate for the republican party for president.
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With the hope of accommodation all but gone, South Carolina left the union with a following of many other states.
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LEaders from many states met to form a new nation in America called the confederate states.
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COnfederate troops fired through out the whole day at fort Sumter.
