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This was the act of introducing slavery and slavery developing in America that brought a sectional divide to the South with the introduction of Slavery. The numbers of enslaved people started varying from state to state which would set us up for further divide leading to the Civil War based on every date having a different opinion on the numbers of slaves and if there should be slaves.

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Missouri applying for statehood increased the tensions between free and slave states because of having to decide if it should be a free or slave state. They did end up making it equal with Missouri being slave and Maine being a free state. The 36,30 line was drawn which would eventually lead to even more issues leading up to the civil war with deciding which states should be free or slave based on that line. It also led to Bleeding Kansas which was the first real violent attack between free and slave state supporters. Tensions ended up just becoming larger because of the Missouri Compromise.

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This rebellion ended up killing the idea that slaves were happy being slaves and it made many white men scared and feel threatened by slaves. They felt that because slaves were unhappy that if they were set free they would rise up and start killing white people. So because of this it started to create slave states very dead set on keeping slavery and increased tensions between slave and free states. This just added on to the tensions that would lead to the civil war.

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Even though this piece of legislation never was passed it led to the first real debate and discussions of secession in states. If passed, the Proviso would have outlawed slavery in territory acquired by the United States as a result of the war. This was a major factor going into the Civil war because of how much conflict it caused leading up to the civil war on free vs slave states.

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While the agreement succeeded in postponing more conflict between the North and South, it did little to address, and in some ways even reinforced, the structural disparity that divided the United States.  The new Fugitive Slave Act, by forcing non-slaveholders to participate in the institution, also led to increased polarization among centrist citizens. It just but a baind-aid on a bullet wound so to speak and still increased tensions leading to the civil war because of things like the fugitive slave act being passed.

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This was the last domino that fell that caused the south to secede from the Union. Abraham Lincoln anti-slavery and southerners felt he would take slavery away from them, which is what caused them to leave and start their own country.

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Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin widened the divide between the North and the South, greatly strengthened Northern abolitionism, and weakened British sympathy for the Southern cause. It was arguably the most influential novel written that led to the Civil War and increased the possibility of free states winning.

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This was a fight between Pro-Slavery and Anti-Slavery citizens following the creation of the new territory Kansas. This definitely raised tensions between these groups and is the first time they actually started fighting over slavery which of course led to the Civil War.

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Fort Sumter was a Union outpost in a the foreign confederate land. On April 12 Confederate warships opened fire on the base for 34 hours. After this the Civil War was officially underway as this was the first battle that started all the fighting between the 2 sides.

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John Brown was a successful and violent abolitionist who played a major role in starting the Civil War. In 1859 him and 19 other supporters led a raid on the federal armory in Harper's Ferry in an effort to steal guns and weapons and give them to the slaves to start an uprising. This made many southerners very upset obviously and scared as this is another act of violence against slave owners, making them more and more worried about if they would lose slavery.

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Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln had 7 very public debates across the state of Illinois, where they debated the very controversial topic at the time, slavery. While these debates got Douglas into the senate, it also propelled Lincoln into the public eye and got him the Republican nomination. This made southerners particularly unhappy about him receiving the nomination as he was very anti-slavery and caused tensions to rise higher.

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The cotton gin was arguably the invention that lead to the civil war because of much of a boom in demand fro slaves it caused. The cotton gin was created right when slavery was coming to an end, but once ot was created slaves were in high demand in the south. This lead to further separation in the north and south because of how different both of their economy were looking, The Souths economy relied on slaves while the Norths didn't.

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Part 2- Triangular Slave Trade 1600s-1900s 

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Part 2- Triangular Slave Trade 1600s-1900s 

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This was the event that started slavery all the way in colonial times. The areas that slaves were being traded into (which was the south) would eventually affect which states would be slave and free states. This was the setup for the start of the civil war, because of how the slave trade already predetermined how our states would separate.

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President Monroe helped lead to further  sectionalism in the US because he was the president that helped pass the Missouri compromise. This compromise was one of the main factors that lead to a civil war because of how much it divided free and slave state supporters. It caused so much decision it lead to the violent event of bloody Kansas.

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This was a Landmark decision in the U.S. that declared American citizens of African descent do not get the same rights from the constitution that white Americans get whether they are enslaved or free. This brought us closer to Civil War by angering Anti-Slavery citizens and African Americans who where trying to make all citizens equal.