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Bobby, are these your own words or copy and paste?

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Bobby, are these your own words or copy and paste?

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On April 12, 1861, Confederate warships turned back the supply convoy to Fort Sumter and opened a 34-hour bombardment on the stronghold. Lincoln later asked for over 70,000 new troops too serve in the  Northern Army... Later a lot of states detached themselves from the government not willing to participate in the army.

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Abraham was elected at this time, which was one of the men who began the movement to end slavery because they knew it wasn't correct.

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Dred Scott was a slave that was brought to supreme court to seek normal rights that every man should have.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, passed while Congressmen received death threats in the House chambers, which overturned parts of the Missouri Compromise by allowing the settlers in the two territories to determine whether or not to permit slavery by a popular vote.

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Was the second most popular/selling book besides the Bible at the time.

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Senators Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas managed the Compromise of 1850. The compromise prevented further territorial expansion of slavery while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act, a law which compelled Northerners to seize and return escaped slaves to the South.

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The Wilmot Proviso was a piece of legislation proposed by David Wilmot.  If passed, the Proviso would have outlawed slavery in territory acquired by the United States as a result of the war, which included most of the Southwest and extended all the way to California.

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Nat Turner was a slave who went on a rampage killing sixty white people. This is known as Nat Turners Rebellion.

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Missouri was transformed into a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state, preserving the Congressional balance.

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Later, the Congress wanted slaves to move westward with a lot of the new westward expansion going on at this time.

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During the early 1800's the U.S. has made a huge purchase of Louisiana which was made in 1803.