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For the statehood of California the South wanted all land from the Mexican American war to be slave states, and the North disagreed. Then the South asked that the Missouri Compromise be extended to the Pacific and the North refused, and then California asked to be a free state.

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Dred Scott was a slave who went to supreme court to fight for citizenship and the supreme court ruled against him. They said that Missouri compromise was unconstitutional and slaves could never become citizens.

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Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner because he was upset about Shumner's speech about the invasion of Lawrence Kansas.

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The bloodshed in Kansas was because a lot of people from the North and South went to Kansas, and some were anti or pro slavery. The South sent several young men, and the North supplied guns to people who were antislavery, this caused riots from raids to hotels burning to bloodshed.

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The act introduced the idea of popular sovereignty which means that the settlers there decided on slavery, in both territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The North was scared of slavery going across the states, but there were arguments that Kansas and Nebraska had bad farming land and some disagreed.

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The North was upset because they thought it was too harsh, and the South was upset because they thought it wasn't harsh enough. Slave hunters were put in place to go to the north and retrieve run away slaves, anybody who helped a slave or anyone who refused to help a slave hunter could be jailed. Above Boston slave hunters weren't assisted or accepted, making the act unsuccessful.

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The Compromise of 1850 made the North happy by adding California as a free state, and letting New Mexico and Utah decide their slave status. The compromise also passed a new law that would help slave owners retrieve their lost slaves.

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The Wilmot Proviso said that no added territory from the Mexican-American war could be a slave state.

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Fugitive slaves were slaves that ran away from their owners, usually helped by sympathizers in the North. Slave owners were demanding Congress pass a law to get their property back.

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There were arguments over the line and the no one could discuss it in congress and the South worried that they were powerless

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A compromise of the north and south that arose from Missouri's application for statehood. Anything above the line was a free state, anything below was a slave state.

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A lot of states seceded from the Union, forming the Confederate States of America, in response to Lincoln refusing to allow the spread of slavery.

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14. Abraham Lincoln is Elected President

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14. Abraham Lincoln is Elected President

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Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860 with only 40% of the votes, all of them from the North. The South reacted to his election with fear because they realized they were the minority.

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John Brown was an abolitionist who planned to raid an armory and he tried to arm slaves with guns to get them to rise up. It scared the south that there would be a slave uprising.

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Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debated on whether or not they could have a half-slavery half non-slavery country. Abraham Lincoln brought the fact that slavery was a moral issue, making him a national figure.

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