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The constitutional convention drafts the New U.S. Constitution with compromises between supporters of slavery and opponents of slavery,  which increased legislative representation in the electoral college and house of representatives by counting a slave as three-fifths of a person. This event led to the civil war with it making slaves three-fifths of a person which put more tension between free and slave states.

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Congress passed this act based on the Article IV section 2 of the constitution that granting a slaveholders right to recover an escaped slave. It made the free states Angry and Slave states happy and put one over the other.

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The united states... Well more like Jefferson purchases the Louisiana territory from napoleon and France. Slavery already exists in the territory and efforts the restrict slavery there fail. The newly purchased lands permit expansion of slavery plantations. The Louisiana purchase opened new opportunity for free and slave states and the effort to not have slavery in Louisiana probably did not sit well with slave states.

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Act Prohibiting Importation of slaves(1807)

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Act Prohibiting Importation of slaves(1807)

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With the 20-year ban of congressional action. Thomas Jefferson calls on congress to make slave trade criminal. Congress outlaws the international slave trade, where importing or exporting slaves becomes federal crime. During the debates John Randolph says the slave trade might become "The pretext of universal emancipation" and it would "blow up the constitution". If there would ever be disagreement or disunion it would draw a line between the states that did have slaves and those who did not. This Probably angered the slave states.

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Henry clay proposed this idea to break the deadlock over Missouri's admission to the union, and that Missouri would be added as a slave state but Maine be added as a free state. This make a little rest for a little while but not enough.

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The nation was still in turmoil even after the Missouri compromise stopped debates for a while, so Henry Clay proposed the compromise of 1850, where for the North, California would be added as a free state AND the slave trade in Washington D.C. ended. In The the South, the Mexico cession was divided into two territories. New Mexico and Utah. Both Mexico and Utah would decide slavery by popular sovereignty.  Popular sovereignty would later cause much worse between the free states and slave states.

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Congress passes this act, providing that popular sovereignty will decide "all questions pertaining to slavery" in the Kansas–Nebraska territories. Both the northerners and southerners go to Kansas to express their opinion in the voting. This would raise tensions between the states with both going to kanas and starting fights.

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Lincoln wins the 1860 presidential election on a platform that includes the prohibition of slavery in new states and territories. This caused more fighting between states and made the tensions wars and was a good factor in the civil war.

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in explanation and support of their position. The document cites "encroachments on the reserved rights of the states" and "an increasing hostility of the non-slaveholding states to the institution of slavery" and "the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery" as among the causes. This was made by a slave states and made the free states and angry.

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Its main features are a constitutional amendment that would reinstate the Missouri Compromise line between free and slave territory and retention of the fugitive slave law and slavery where it existed, including in the District of Columbia. It reinstated the line of the Missouri Compromise but kept the fugitive slave law intact and didn't help anything.

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South Carolina withdraw from the U.S. House of Representatives

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South Carolina withdraw from the U.S. House of Representatives

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Congressmen from Carolina of the south withdraw from the union, but the house refuses their resignations. This contributes with the civil war by making a state mad at the union.

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South Carolina takes dormant control of Fort Jackson in harbor of Charleston. It leads by them taking fort Jackson and raising tensions.

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The merchant vessel Star of the West which is under contract to the War Department, heads for Fort Sumter from New York with 250 reinforcements and supplies. It makes states nervous and they want to fire.

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Mississippi Stops being part of the union. It made another state disgruntled with the Union

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state troops at Charleston fire upon the merchant ship Star of the West and prevent it from landing reinforcements and relief supplies for Fort Sumter. It fires upon it and adds tensions and more war between states.

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Mississippi representatives to the U.S. Congress resign

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Mississippi representatives to the U.S. Congress resign

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They resign from the Congress. Another state at odds with congress.

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Georgia secedes from the Union and the union loses another country. Making tensions and the war worse.

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the "Confederacy" is not recognized by the United States government or any foreign government. Border states initially refuse to join Confederacy. On February 9, the convention chooses Jefferson Davis as Provisional President and Alexander Stephens as Provisional Vice President of the Confederate States. United states government ignores it and it probably make some states angry making more violence.

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called by Virginia meets in Washington. None of the seceded states are represented. Five Northern states also do not attend. On February 27, after much bickering, the convention sends recommendations for six constitutional amendments along the lines of the Crittenden Compromise to Congress and adjourns. States don't attend, tensions rise because of it, It helps little but does not stop the war.

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Confederates demand surrender of Fort Sumter

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Confederates demand surrender of Fort Sumter

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They command for the surrender and want to capture it. This makes tings worse for the war but it's closer to the end of it.