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Evaluate the relative importance of political events and issues that divided the
nation and led to civil war, including the compromises reached to maintain the
balance of free and slave states, the abolitionist movement, the Dred Scott case,
conflicting views on states’ rights and federal authority, the emergence of the
Republican Party, and the formation of the Confederate States of America.

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PIC THE PIC
P: i see a slave ripping a map of the north and the south, i see a southerner smoking and a northerner looking curious
I: Because i see a black ripping the map between the north and south i think that this is leading up to the civil war.
C: the author is saying that slavery is ripping the two sides apart.

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1. Free soil-a political party that wanted to stop the expansion of slavery.
2. Antebellum period- the meaning of the period before the civil war.
3. Fugitive slave laws- attempt to pacify the south and keep them in the union.
4. Kansas-Nebraska act- it allowed the the people to chose if they wanted slavery by popular sovereignty.
5. Secession- the act of withdrawing from a country.