# data[].attributes.body
Maine joined the US as a free state and Missouri joined as a slave state

# data[].attributes.body
The compromise had five laws to deal with slavery. The Fugitive Slave Act was the most important

# data[].attributes.body
Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book by Harriet Beecher Stowe, changing the way northerners looked at slavery was published in a newspaper.

# data[].attributes.body
An act that undercutted the Missouri Compromise and allowed people to vote on whether their state should be a slave or free state.

# data[].attributes.body
In 1852, the republican party was formed to oppose the spread of slavery.

# data[].attributes.body
Bleeding Kansas is the outbreaks of battles between pro-slavery and anti-slavery after the creation of Kansas

# data[].attributes.body
Dred Scott sued for his wife's and his freedom as they lived in a free state. They were denied as "black people aren't considered citizens of the United States"

# data[].attributes.body
John Brown, an abolitionist, wanted to give slaves weapons to revolt on a US arsenal

# data[].attributes.body
On Nov 6th, 1860 Lincoln was elected to office as president.

# data[].attributes.body
South Carolina was the first state to secede on Dec 20th, 1860 after Lincoln was elected

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
20th December 1860: South Carolina secedes from the United States of America

# data[].attributes.body
Fort Sumter was bombed by South Carolina's militia