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On a mission to expand slavery into western territory, Congress came to an agreement to declare Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state, splitting both into North and South.

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Nat Turner was a slave that made an uprising that spread through Virginia. Turner and his followers ended up killing about 60 white people. They got tried and got executed for their actions of insurrection.

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The proposition from David Wilmot to forbid slavery in the territories of the United States. But, the attempts of the stipulation were not successful.

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The Compromise of 1850 came after the debate of Wilmot Proviso. This compromise basically stopped slavery to spread throughout the United States and it included the Fugitive Slave Act. This act let the slaves that escaped from the south to the north could not be arrested or taken back to where they came from. This act ultimately divided the beliefs of the North and the South.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom''s Cabin, one of her best selling books. The book brought slavery to life and gave it a perspective to those who haven't experienced it.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed states on both sides to decide for themselves if they wanted to be a slave state or a free state. This would be declared by popular vote. As a result, movements went to Kansas , expecting to change the declaration. By the end of the five-year outbreak, 56 lives were taken.

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A Virginia slave named Dred Scott who seeked freedom by taking legal action. The court ruled that Scott was property didn't have the same rights as a human being.

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During Bleeding Kansas, John Brown was an anti-slavery "Jayhawker"  who, along with white allies and free blacks, raided a government arsenal. Hoping for slave uprisings, he wished to gather weapons and give them to southern slaves to do so. He surrendered to Colonel Robert E. Lee.

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When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, many states decided to separate themselves from the union, including South Carolina.

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Abraham Lincoln sent supplies to the soldiers that were under siege after many federal forts had became outposts.