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A newspaper to try to help end slavery written by William Lioyd Garrison
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A compromise between the north and the south so California could be a free state
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An anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Was and act that let them decide if they would allow slavery or not.
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On March 4th, 1857 James Buchanan was sworn into office as the 15th president by the Democrat party.
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Dred Scott went to the supreme court and said he should be a free citizen because he had traveled to a free state with his owner. The supreme court ruler said that congress cant just put an end to slavery for a slave.
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John Brown led a group of his supporters to capture armory and arsenal. Brown was hung for his actions.
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Abe was going against Steven Douglas. He won with 178 1/2 votes and Douglas only had 102.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter began because South Carolina seceded. Everyone disagreed with letting Lincoln let South Carolina go.
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The battle was the first major battle. It began because of the battle of Fort Sumter.
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South Carolina seceded from the union because when Lincoln was elected for president and said he wanted slavery to stay the same and he didn't want to mess with it.
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It went into effect to free all slaves and make them U.S. citizens.
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It happened because General Lee wanted to get in with the war.
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The reason the battle began was that Sherman found out that Abraham Lincoln was re-elected president.
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General Lee surrendered to General Grant and then surrendered.
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John Wilkes Booth got into Lincoln's booth while at Ford's theater, watching a show and shot Lincoln in the head. The reason Booth shot Lincoln was because Booth was a current slave owner and Lincoln just issued the Emancipation Proclamation to free all slaves.
