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The South left the Union in order to preserve the law of slavery. They also left the Union for other reasons like States Rights and taxes

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Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th president of the United States as a Republican.

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This was a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. They mostly argued over the important topic of slavery.

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This was a court ruling made by the Supreme Court saying that a black man is not a citizen and cannot sue his owner. This angered many Northerners and fueled them with hatred for pro slavery Americans.

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One day Representative Preston Brook attacked Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts. This was because of the difference of ideas about slavery.

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This was a mini war between pro slavery Americans, and Anti slavery Americans. The fight took place in Kansas 1856

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This bill that passed allowed states like Kansas and Nebraska to choose for themselves wether or not to be slave states. This threw Congress and the Senate into unbalance.

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The Fugitive Slave Act required Northerners to help find missing slaves. All slaves must be returned to their masters

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This was a set of Bills that made a compromise to free and slave states. The main ideas were that California admitted as a free state, Slave trade prohibited in Washington D.C.,  No slavery restrictions in Utah or New Mexico territories, and along with some other compromises.

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Fugative Slaves were slaves that had ran away from their owners. These slaves were looking for better life up North

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Slavery is now permitted under the state of Missouri causing uproar about the slave state boundary line.

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In order to keep Congress in balance, Missouri was admitted as a slave state.