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Approximately 645,000 Africans were brought to America as slaves. By 1820 northern states had made slavery illegal. However, the debate over whether slavery should expand into newly acquired territory showcased and deepened sectional tensions between the Abolitionists in the North and the Southern slave holders. Southern states demanded that they be allowed to keep and expand slavery into new territories.

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36 30 line was made to temporarily solve the arguments with slavery. Missouri was allowed as slave state and Maine was added to the North for balance as an anti slavery state.

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California was allowed as a free state but the Fugitive Slave act was strengthened, so escaped slaves were to be captured and taken back to the South into slavery.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote about the lives of slaves which convinced many to be against slavery since it had opened their eyes to the cruel lives they lived. The South was upset claiming that "Stowe's work was slanderous"

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The Kansas Nebraska Act let people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska choose for themselves to allow or not allow slavery within their borders.

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Abraham Lincoln was elected by considerable margin although he wasn't in much southern ballots he got a lot of votes from other states which made the republicans that wanted slavery to still go on which made them fear of the ¨anti-slavery¨that Abraham Lincoln had going on. The southerners thought Lincoln was not suit because he wasn't into slavery enough. But in December 20, 1860 a month after the polls were closed, 6 more states followed by 1861

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1861 shots fired at fort Sumter = civil war starts

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1861 shots fired at fort Sumter = civil war starts

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The South shot at the fresh supplies that Abraham Lincoln was sending to the beleaguered garrisons, leading to a 34 hour bombardment and the beginning of civil war.