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1619 - 1819 (American Slavery - "A Peculiar Institution")

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1619 - 1819 (American Slavery - "A Peculiar Institution")

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Slavery has existed since the 17-18 centuries and has always been causing problems. When the North banned slavery, it caused sectional tensions to rise between the North and the South.

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The Missouri Compromise was passed because it was needed to maintain the balance of power in Congress after gaining new land and the debates between slavery once again started up. Congress made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state; creating the line that any territory above the 36’30 parallel of slave states would be free. Only temporarily worked, discarded in favor of the Compromise of 1850.

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Starting in 1846 and ending in 1848, the Mexican-American War was centered on Texas joining the U.S.

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The Compromise of 1850 was passed in hopes that it would diffuse confrontations between the North and the South.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote about slaves and their everday lives. Convinced many to be against slavery after "discovering" how really cruel their lives were. Caused the nation to be in an uproar over the controversial issue of slavery.

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Revoked the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and established Kansas and Nebraska as territories that allowed popular sovereignty, majority favor for either slavery or not. As a result of this act, Bleeding Kansas occur. Settlers from both the North and the South flooded Kansas in hopes of recuritng more people onto their side of the issue on slavery. Many dided and the Republican Party was born, something that caused further division in the nation.

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Four candidates, only one in favor of the abolition of slavery. Lincoln won by a landslide despite the south not even putting him as an option on the election polls. Caused many southerners to fear for how the future would be for them if Lincoln ended slavery, their only major free workforce.

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1861 (Shots Fired At Sumter; Civil War Starts)

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1861 (Shots Fired At Sumter; Civil War Starts)

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Marked the beginning of the Civil War. Occurred when the South Carolina militia invaded Fort Sumter and the U.S Army fired back; the US army eventually surrendered. Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee seceded because they were unwilling to contribute troops to the union army. During this battle, the first shot was fired, marking the beginning of the Civil War.