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Undergound Railroad
the underground railroad was not underground or a rail.It was just houses,and the conducters were not really conducters.That was just their secrets codes.The underground railroad freed about 6,000 slaves. -
states rights
states were arguing over power and slavery.If slavery was up to the federal government so that was a problem,so people started arguing. -
slavery
slavery caused the civil war because the debates.Over the future of slavery then southern and western states were fighting.That was a peace of why the Civil War started. -
The missouri compromise
some territories were allowed to chose if they were going to be a slave state or a free state.those territories were ohio,Indiana,Illoins,Michigan,and Wisconsin. -
power of the federal government
The civil war started because of how much power the federal government had.So people were arguing because they wanted the power to be balanced. -
slave states
Missouri was admitted as a slave state in 1820.Later on texas was also admitted as a slave state in 1845.status of slavery western territories won as a effect of the Mexican-American war in 1850. -
border states
People got mad because Abraham Lincoln said that south and the north will be slave free.But he never said that border states would be free.so people were not agreeing if the south and the north ere going to be slave free they wanted border states to be slave free as well. -
Abraham Lincoln
the election of Abraham Lincoln.before he was present he said that he would keep slavery how it is but no new territories.After he became the sixteen present he made The Emancipation proclamation and ended slavery.Well we didn't end slavery but he stoped most of the slavery.