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Rhode Island becomes the first of the original Thirteen Colonies to introduce anti-slavery laws that would accentuate the divide between Northern and Southern states.

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Thomas Jefferson draws up the Declaration of Independence to assert the sovereign rights of the American colonists.

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With the end of the revolutionary war ending, America could now bring back their troops and have time to make more weapons and replenish themselves before the war. Without the threat of Britain they didn't have to work together to win after the war, so in a way the war tore the north and the south apart at the end of it.

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The 3/5 compromise was the compromise that decided that  three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.

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The land of the Louisiana purchase is the land that everyone fought over.

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The 1808 Act imposed heavy penalties on international traders, but did not end slavery itself nor the domestic sale of slaves. Not only did it drive trade underground, but ships caught illegally trading were often brought into the United States and its passengers sold into slavery.

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The Missouri Compromise Divided the USA into 2 parts, the northern part and the southern part. They did not agree on slavery so the southern part allowed slavery and the northern part didnt'

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The results of the 1820 census show of a total population of a little more than 10 million, 15% are slaves, though they are virtually non-existent in the northern states. However, in the South, it as high as 51% in South Carolina and 45% in Louisiana Which shows how many slaves are in america which is controversial.

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The state of New York abolishes slavery.

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When the mexican war ended, the states that we had taken would either have to join the US as a free state or as a slave state and they would have to decide which is which.

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The Compromise of 1850 was made up of five bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States

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The fugitive slave act provided for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a federal territory.

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The chararcter uncle tom is an african american who retains his integrity and refuses to betray his fellow slaves at the cot of his life which was controversial.

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The Gadsden Purchase is a roughly 30,000 square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was acquired by the United States in a treaty signed by American ambassador to Mexico James Gadsden

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.

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A member of the House of Representatives entered the Senate Chamber and savagely beat a senator into unconsciousness.

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Bleeding Kansas describes the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854. In all, some 55 people were killed between 1855 and 1859.

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1857 Dred Scott Loses His Case so he can't be free

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1857 Dred Scott Loses His Case so he can't be free

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Dred Scott was an enslaved African-American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for freedom for themselves and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857.

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John Brown attempts to lead an armed slave insurrection by seizing a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He believed slavery could only be ended by violent means.

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1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected president.  

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1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected president.  

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The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 6, 1860.