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This made it illegal to help runaway slaves.

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This was literature of slaves that northern Americans saw.

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This was the main reason for the Civil war.

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The north wanted to ban all slavery and the south wanted to keep it. This led to the war.

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When it became a state would become a free state which made the free states outweigh the slave states.

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This act made it legal to own slaves in Kansas and Nebraska.

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They build a railroad for slaves to be shipped on.

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There was two opposing government which resulted in fighting.

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This added to the tension at the time. Brooks used a walking stick to beat Sumner unconscious.

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Democrat Stephen Douglas had predicted that the Kansas-Nebraska Act would “raise a . . . storm.” Some Whigs, Democrats, Free-Soilers, and abolitionists joined in 1854 to form the Republican Party, a political party united against the spread of slavery in the West.

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Just two days after Buchanan became president, the Supreme Court issued

a historic ruling about slavery. News of the decision threw the country back into crisis.

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Dred Scott v. Sandford | Homework Help from the Bill of Rights Institute

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Dred Scott was a slave owned by a doctor. The doctor then died and hid new master was Emerson’s widow. He sued saying that he would be free.

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In 1858 Illinois Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln for the U.S. Senate. His opponent was Democrat Stephen Douglas, who had represented Illinois in the Senate since 1847. Lincoln challenged Douglas in

what became the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates.