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Lincoln decided to send supplies to outposts such as Ft Sumter. The Confederates sent back the supplies and started firing on the fort, beginning the civil war.

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Abraham Lincoln was elected popularly despite not being on the Southern ballot. The first Southern state seceded after this election because Lincoln's intent was to abolish slavery.

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John Brown collected white allies and freed blacks to raid the government for weapons. He was captured by Robert E Lee and was executed for treason

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Scott was a slave fighting for his freedom. His case went to the Supreme Court where they ruled he was a piece of property. This decision threatened to kill everything.

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This compromise strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act and prevented the further spread of slavery. It postponed hostilities between the North and South

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This act overturned the Missouri Compromise and allowed the settlers to decide by popular vote over the issue of slavery. The factions struggled for five years with violence, and ended with both territories signing anti-slavery constitutions.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin was a bestselling book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that brought the issue of slavery to light. It was viewed as scandalous by southerners.

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The Wilmot Proviso was proposed at the close of the Mexican-American war. If it was passed, it would have outlawed slavery in the new states acquired. The intensity of this debate prompted the topic of secession.

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Thomas Jefferson's Quote About the Missouri Compromise

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Thomas Jefferson's Quote About the Missouri Compromise

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“I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.  It is hushed indeed for the moment.  But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.”

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This event was a monumental case of revenge in that a once slave Turner ended up killing over 60 white people  and he and the other slaves were executed and slaves rights were prohibited ore than ever before.

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With the application of Missouri for statehood came a fiery debate. Should new states have slavery or should they not be allowed to have it? With the admission of Maine as a free state, Congress compromised and made Missouri a slave state. This preserved the balance and made South states slave states and North states free states.