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In 1787 the government came up with how the house and senate would work. In the Senate, every state would get 2 senators. In the house, every state would get a different amount based on their population. This led to the civil war because it brought up the question of if slaves counted as part of the population.

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The 3/5ths compromise was a benefit for slave-owning states. What this law stated was slaves would be counted as 3/5ths of a person for the population so they would have more representatives. The slaves would still not be able to vote and would still have no rights. This led to the civil war because it was another law against slaves and their rights which added another argument to the conversation on if slavery should be allowed.

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The cotton gin was created to make getting the seeds out of cotton way easier. This created a great demand for slaves as cotton then became more wanted. This led to the civil war because it added more slaves to the United States.

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Thomas Jefferson was elected as president of the United States in 1801. This event led to the civil war because he was the one who purchased new land which started a larger debate over slavery which led to the civil war.

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The Louisiana territory was purchased in 1803 by president Thomas Jefferson. He originally wanted only New Orleans for trading but France wanted to get rid of all of the lands they owned in the Americas to focus on Europe. So Thomas Jefferson ended up purchasing the whole land almost doubling the land of the United States. This led to the civil war which started debates on if slavery should be expanded into this new land.

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In the North people, didn't need slaves and thought slavery was wrong so it was banned in the north. This led to the civil war because this started the conflict between the North and the South on slavery being abolished in the U.S.

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The Lewis and Clark expedition Starts 1804

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The Lewis and Clark expedition Starts 1804

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Once the Louisiana Purchase was made Thomas Jefferson wanted to know everything he could about the new land. He sent Lewis and Clark to explore and discover new things about the land. He also asked them to create better relationships with Native Americans who live on the land so they can trade. This led to the civil war because it started people moving west which caused the argument about slavery which was the cause of the civil war.

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The Lewis and Clark Expedition helped us learn a lot about the new land that was purchased. They made peaceful relationships with the natives. They discovered new plants and animals. This led to the civil war because that new land was debated over with the case of slavery.

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The Trans- Atlantic Slave Trade is banned in the U.S 1808

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The Trans- Atlantic Slave Trade is banned in the U.S 1808

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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was banned in 1808 after they weren't allowed to until 1807. This was one of the first steps to slavery being abolished. This led to the civil war because it made the South mad that they couldn't slave trade anymore.

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In 1819, Spain and the United States signed the Adams-Onis Treaty. The treaty settled all border disputes between Spain and the United States. The most important outcome of the treaty was that Spain ceded, or gave, Florida to the United States for $5 million. Then all of Florida was added to the United States. This led to the civil war because it was another state added that allowed slavery and was another state that was part of the civil war.

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In 1820 Missouri applied to be a state and be added to the union. There was then a debate over if slavery should be allowed there or not. The North said it shouldn't the South said it should. So the Missouri Compromise was created. In the compromise, the North would get Maine added to the union as a free state and there would be a line drawn over through the Louisiana purchase and any state who applied to become a state above that line would not allow slavery and any state that applied to be a state below that line would allow slavery. This led to the civil war by just putting off the issue until later.

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Slaves Allowed to be Hurt with no Charges 1830

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Slaves Allowed to be Hurt with no Charges 1830

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In North Carolina v. Mann, the Supreme Court of North Carolina rules that slaveowners save absolute authority over their slaves and cannot be found guilty of committing violence against them. This means that slave owners can't be committed of crimes against their slaves. This led to the civil war because slaves were getting treated worse and worse overtime which led to rebellions and eventually a war.

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Nat Turner's rebellion was a fight for the freedom of slaves. This rebellion killed around 61 white people. In the end, 55 slaves were tried and executed for their role in the rebellion. This led to the civil war by adding onto the fight for freedom of the slaves.

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The Underground Railroad was an organized effort to get slaves into free states. It was a network of abolitionists and it was very successful at first until the laws got stricter about bringing slaves back to their owners. This led to the civil war by some people helping slaves and other people wanting their slaves back this added to the argument which eventually led to the civil war.

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In the 1840's and '50s many immigrants from Ireland came over during the potato famine and they were able to work low wages which got rid of the need for slaves in the north. This led to the civil war because it made the North see how bad slavery was and this just contributed to the debate.

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Manifest destiny was the belief that we needed to expand west. This belief was believed among most people but was also not believed by many people. This led to the civil war because the more we expanded west the more land slavery could be added to. This started more fights against and for slavery.

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The Mexican-American war began with President Polk wanting to expand to the West. Texas wanted to go to the United States but Mexico wanted to hold onto them. After multiple attacks and fights, Mexico gave the land to the U.S. This led to the civil war because it was another state that they had to decide if it was going to be a slave state or not.

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The compromise of 1850 was over if slavery should be allowed in new territories. The territory they got from the Mexican- American war was split into 2 parts the Utah territory and the New Mexico territory. They let slavery be decided by popular sovereignty there. They also added California as a free state. With this compromise, the fugitive slave act was also passed. This act made it easier for slave owners in the South the get their escaped slaves back. Another agreement was the slave trade in Washington D.C. was ended showing an example for the rest of the country. This led to the civil war because it divided the north and south even more making slavery an even bigger debate.

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Senator Stephan Douglas proposed dividing the land into 2 areas Kansas and Nebraska. Both of these new areas would decide slavery by popular sovereignty. 2 big attacks were made in the new Kansas territory to get slavery abolished. The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise.  These attacks made on Kansas made Kansas called “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote. This led to the civil war because it made the debate about slavery grow and started more arguments about slavery.

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Bleeding Kansas were fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854. In all, some 55 people were killed between 1855 and 1859. This led to the civil war because it was more fights between the north and south that led to the civil war.