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James Tallmadge of New York proposed an amendment to the statehood that stated Missouri could join the Union but only as a free state.

The North was in favor of this amendment because it would add another slave free state to the US.
The south opposed this amendment and responded to it "with a roar" of protest.

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In 1820 the question was brought up again. Thomas Cobb said "if you persist, the union will be dissolved." Finally congress agreed to a compromise rafted by Representative Henry Clay. It said that Missouri was a slave state and Maine was a free states.
No one was pleased.
The north congress men who voted to pass Missouri as a slave sate were seen as traitors.
In the South slave holders deeply resented the ban on slavery.

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Nat turners rebellion was the last large scale slave revolt. Most slaves who escaped ran north to sympathetic people in the north.
The south didn't this and viewed any northers who helped the escaped slaves "no better than bank robbers".
The north would keep allowing slaves to be free.

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Abolitionists flooded congress with anti-slavery petitions. Congress was told that they had no power to interfere with slavery. So in 1836 they (congress) tabled anti slavery acts. John Adams suggested the gag rule which prevented the consideration of an anti slavery proposal.

The South continued to attack slavery in books,newspapers and public meetings.
Northern continued to help fugitive slaves.

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Wilmot Proviso stated that slavery would not be allowed in the Mexican Cession.

The North was in favor of this because it would add less to slavery.

The South was not in favor of this and went into another "roar of protest".

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California applied as a free state. The North had open arms for them but the South rejected the request.  They said that it was upset the equal balance that had been set up.
The North re said that Slavery was a crime against Humanity.

The south threatened to withdraw from the Union.

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The law was that any slave that was a runaway had no legal rights many slaves fled to Canada.

Both side were unhappy.
Northers did not want to enforce the law.

Southerners believed the law was not doing enough.

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A Novel writen by Harriert Beecher Stowe  showed the trtuh of what she saw when sitting in chruch.

The North was afried the the truth and what slaves had to go through.

The South didn't like the published novel.

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Ostend Manifesto was a message sent to the secretay of state by three American diplomats who were meeting in Ostend Belgium. President Franklin had been trying to buy a island in Spain and Spain refused. When the public found out angry was spread.
The North was angry and charged that Pierces government wanted grab Cuba in order to add another slave state to the union.
The South was happy the more slave states could happen.

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Slavery went from congress to the supreme court. This case would effect the case of Dred Scoot. He went to Wisconsin before coming back to Missouri. he then went to court to reclaim his freedom.

Northers were stunned and energy with the decision.
The South was pleased.

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Lincoln's was facing Senator Stephen Douglas. An Illinois senator who saw no reason why the nation could not go on half slave and half free. So Lincoln challenged him to debate the slavery issue and Douglas said yes.

Both the North and the South had mixed oppions.

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John Brown decied to make a plan to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

This filled white Southerners with fear

The North saw Brown as a hero.

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This election made a division in the nation. Republicans were untied behind Lincoln but the Democrats split the south and the north into parts.

After Lincoln won it was seen as odd.
The North had voted strongly for him

But in 10 south states he wasn´t even there

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After the election panic broke out across the US. Many were trying to find peace in hopes that the Union can stay together.
On December 20th the Union dissolved.
The North leaves.
The South leaves.

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On April 12 1861 Confederates in Charleston,South Carolina, forced an issue when they opened fire at Fort Sumter.
After more than 30 hours of heavy shelling defenders of the fort hauled down the America flag and placed a white flag of surrender.
This sent a wave of furry in the Norths side.
The south could not longer use anything against the North.