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When Dred Scott's owner died he sued saying that when his owner took him to a free territory he was free.

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The Republican party was formed in 1854 and was united against slavery.

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Sectionalism favored the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country.

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Popular Sovereignty was the idea that the political power belongs to the people allowing them to decide on banning or allowing slavery.

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The Fugitive Slave Act made it illegal to help any slaves escape slavery.

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If there was a balance of slave states and free states There was a balance of power but more and more territories wanted to become states possible tilting the balance.

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The slave states or the Southern states thought that slavery was a state issue and were unwilling to think otherwise bot allowing a country wide law for no slavery.

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Cotton was used to make most clothes and was grown in the South but growing and harvesting it was labor intensive so plantation owners bought slaves to do the work.

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Abraham Lincoln ran against Stephen Douglas for president and won. The southern states did not like Lincoln because of his anti slavery stance.

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The state Kansas would decide if it would be a free state or a slave state causing many fights to break out there and the New York Tribune calling it Bleeding Kansas.

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The book Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about what life was like as a slave.

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Slavery was what the states in the North wanted to make illegal and what the states in the South wanted to keep.

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How Slavery Caused the American Civil War

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The abolitionist movement started in the 1830's that was against slavery.