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The Missouri Compromise occured because the south wanted Missouri to be a slave state, but the north wanted it to be free. In the end, Missouri was admitted as a slave state, and a new line of slavery was made.
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The Wilmot Proviso was an anti-slave law
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California was added as a state as part of the compromise of 1850.
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The Fugitive Slave law was passed so that it made it that when a slave ran away, slave hunters could come to the north to get them. If any nothereners were found hididng runaway slaves, they could be imprisoned.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by Harriet Beacher Stoh to show what horrible conditions slaves lived in.
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The Kansas Nebraska act made it so that territories were free, but open to slavery
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The Ostend Manifesto was a mesage sent to the secretary of state to tell him to purchase the island of Cuba from Spain, but Spain refused. The message said to take it by force if Spain still refused to sell. This leaked to the public, causing the "manifesto"
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John Brown raided Harper's Ferry to provide slave with weapons
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People for slavery got angry at the abolitionists, and initiated a raid on the center anti-slavery government, which was located in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Charles Sumner was beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks because he gave a speach on "The Crime Against Kansas". The man who attacked him was applauded by those who shared his views, and some people even sent him canes.
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John Brown invades an aromry in hopes of arming slaves
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Freed many slaves
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There was a series of debates between Lincoln and Douglas in which they discussed the issue of slavery.
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South Carolina secedes because it is angry that Lincoln won't allow slavery in the territories.
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Abraham Licoln is elected president of the United States.
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The first attack on the confederacy.
