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Tensions between the North and South over whether the western land gained by the U.S. should become free or slave territory.

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This act allowed local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners, and imposed penalties to anyone who helped their flight.

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The book caused people of the South to feel judged. Some people say "so this is the little lady who made this big war?"

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Senator Douglas was promoting a trancontinental railroad that would pass through Chicago in his home state. But the northern route had to pass through the Nebraska territory, a place where slavery was prohibited by the 1820 Missouri Compromise. Rivals including slave owners, wanted a southern route.

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John Brown lured five pro-slavery men out of their houses with a promise that they would not be harmed, and then slashed and stabbed them with a saber and shot them in the head.

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John Emerson had puchased him, then took him to the free state of Illinois and also Wisconsin. But, people, and the government did not like the fact that a black man was free.

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In October 1859, John Brown and 22 men launched a raid on Harpers Ferry.

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The election caused dispute between the North and the South.

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The south split from the north, because they didn't like what Abrahm Lincoln was doing.

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The british colony of Georgia banned slavery from 1735 to 1750, although it remained legal in the other 12 colonies.

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Missouri's application for statehood as a slave state made a bitter national debate. The addition of pro-slavery legislators would give the pro-slavery faction a Congressional majority.

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Turner and about 70 coherts killed around 60 white people. She incited many uprisings at many different plantations in southern Virginia.

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The Wilmot Proviso was a piece of legislation, that if passed, would outlaw slavery in territory acquired by the United States as a result of the war.

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John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry: Civil War West Virginia

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The Election of 1860 & the Road to Disunion: Crash Course US History #18