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Northern opponents of slavery formed it to prevent the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
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California was admitted as a free state but in the other territory aquired from Mexico, voters would decide the slavery issue themselves.
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A powerful story about slavery
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Which divides the Nebrask Territory into kansas and nebraska.
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Supreme Court rules that federal government does not have power to outlaw slavery within territories.
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Meeting in charleston, without a dissenting vote, the convention declated that "the union now subsistion between south carolina and the other states, under the name of the "United states of america" is herebu dissolved.
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southern states seceded, they seized the federal forts
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Seven seceding states
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went into office
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It destroyed one third of Lee's forces and marked the last major Confederate attempt to invade the North.
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Lincoln used the occasion to reaffirm the ideas for which the Union was fighting.
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He was shot in the head. Vice president Andrew Johnson became president.
