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Compromise between Pro-Slavery and Anti- Slavery supporters about slavery in new Lousiana territory. It prohibited slavery north of the 36th parallel, to keep the balance of slave and free states Missouri entered as a slave state so Maine could enter as a free.

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Nat Turner's Rebellion (also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner. Rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, at least 51 being white.

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The compromise consisted of five bills including the fugitive slave act. These bills were meant to end a four year argument between slave and free states regrading slavery in the Mexican cession area of the U.S. Reduced conflict in these areas for about four years.

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Part of the Compromise of 1850, meant to reduce tension between slave holders of the south and free north. This law declared that any slaves found were to be returned to their masters.

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Published in 1852 Uncle Tom's cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Features a character known as Uncle Tom a long time slave. Was created to help the abolitionists movement in the 1850s.

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Time were Kansas was the site of violence due to slavery issues. When Pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters migrated to the area it created many violent in-counters. Kansas eventually enters as a free state.

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This law created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and in effected repealed the Missouri compromise through popular sovereignty. It let the people living in these areas to decide for themselves if they wanted slavery in these areas or not.

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With tensions in Kansas high it carried over into the congress. Where congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina attacked congressman Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane, because Sumner blamed the south for the violence in Kansas.

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The case had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. Scott argued that his time spent in these locations entitled him to emancipation. In his decision, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney,a supporter of slavery, disagreed: The court found that no black, free or slave, could claim U.S. citizenship, and therefore blacks were unable to petition the court for their freedom. The Dred Scott decision incensed abolitionists and heightened North-South tensions.

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Series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln the republican candidate and Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. The main issue discussed in all seven debates was slavery.

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An attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid, accomplished by 20 men in his party, was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee. John Brown had originally asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, both of whom he had met in his formative years as an abolitionist in Springfield, Massachusetts, to join him in his raid, but Tubman was prevented by illness, and Douglass declined, as he believed Brown's plan would fail. An attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery.

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The United States had been divided during the 1850s on questions surrounding the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners. The Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured enough electoral votes to put Abraham Lincoln in the White House without support from the South.Before Lincoln's inauguration, seven Southern states seceded and formed the Confederacy. The election was the last in which the Federalist Party fielded a presidential candidate.

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Nat Turner, History.com Editors, HISTORY, https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/nat-turner, April 12, 2019, A&E Television Networks, September 12, 2018, December 2, 2009

Prelude to the Civil War, https://www.preceden.com/timelines/42842-prelude-to-the-civil-war, Preceden, April 12,2019