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Agreement making Missouri a slave state in turn for Maine being free.
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A slave rebellion in Virginia led by Nat Turner that resulted in harsher slave laws.
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Done to ease tensions. Included making Cali a free state and fugitive slave act.
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A law that required escaped slaves be returned to owners, even if they make it into a free state.
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Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that depicted the harsh life of a slave and their struggles.
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Law that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to choose if they are free or slave which overturned the Missouri compromise.
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A series violent conflicts in Kansas between Pro and Anti slavery groups.
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Southern Congressmen Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner with a cane for his anti slavery speech
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Lincoln and Douglas debates happen as they compete for Senate which gained Lincoln national attention.
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Abolitionist John Brown led an attack on a federal arsenal in Virginia, hoping to start a slave rebellion, but he was captured and executed.
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Davis was chosen as the leader of the Confederate States when Southern states seceded from the U.S.
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The first battle of the Civil War, when Confederate forces fired on a U.S. fort in South Carolina, forcing its surrender.