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Dred Scott thought he was free because there was a law that allowed any slaves that stepped in a free state to become free.But his owner told him no, so he took it to the Supreme Court and they decided  it dint aplice to him because he was not a US citizen.This left many northerners outrage and called for equal rights

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Dred scott
US Supreme Court.

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South Carolina did not like how a man that hated slavery was running the US.They felt attack so they left the union to preserve slavery.They are the first to leave and one of the start of the United state of confederacy and the one to shoot first to start the civil war.

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Abraham Lincoln
All of south Carolina

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The election was a race between 4 different people the the 2 major people where Abraham Lincoln a Republican and John Breckinridge a southern democrat,Lincoln got 39.8 of the votes and Breckinridge got 18.1 of the votes which made Lincoln the next president,Many southern states did not like this because they did not have a lot of electoral vote and Lincoln did not like slavery.

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Abraham Lincoln
John C. Breckinridge

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John Brown lead a raid of 8 white men,13 free black men,1 fugitive slave,To take Harpers Ferry was big US armory.They were defeated an John Brown was hanged.This was a big step to the civil war.

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Brown's party of 22
88 US marines

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The Debates to decide witch control Illinois general assembly ,Lincoln was a Republican,Douglas a  Democratic,They had to debate in 7 districts.They main theme was Slavery over the 2 men.Douglas won but Lincoln will soon be the candidate for the Republican party for president .

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Lincoln
Douglas

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After the Kansas Nebraska act many people that were for and against slavery went to Kansas to make it their side.This lead to many fights between them.This ended with many people dead.This lead many people in the north to believe that the Kansas Nebraska Act was a big fail.

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pro-slavery
anti-slavery

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The Act was Proposed by Douglas,It was meant to repel the Missouri compromise and add 2 new territories Kansas and Nebraska and they will decide if they wanted to be free or slave states.This lead to many people fighting over being a free or slave state.This will lead to the Republican party to gain support,

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Stephen A. Douglas
The congress

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Uncle Tom's Cabin talks about the hardships slave are facing in the south. Uncle Tom's Cabin was hated thought the southern states.Some people called it fake.The book had a big effect of starting the civil war.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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On September 18 1850 President Millard Fillmore sign a law that made slave that where escape slavery were allowed to get capture by their old slave owners and slave again.This can happen any part to the USA.The anti-slave hated this act.

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Millard Fillmore
Southern states

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The Compromise of 1850 made california a free state and ban slave trading but the Fugitive slave act was pass and New mexico and Utah territories will decide if they wanted to be free or slave states.

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After the US got California in the war, golf was found by James W. Marshall.This lead many american to come to California to get rich.Many brought slave with them.This lead to a large population of slaves in California.Until the compromise of 1850 made California a free state.

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Henry Clay
Stephen Douglas
Millard

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David Wilmot
Congress

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Wilmot Proviso was a plan form David Wilmot to ban slavery form the new territories that were won in the Mexican American.It passed the House but do to the south controlling the senate it did not pass.This allowed the new territories choses between free or slave which most choses.This lead to the slave state having more power in congress.

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The Mexican American war ended in US victory.In that victory US got California and New Mexico.After Texas and New Mexico became slave state the balance shift to more slave state then free states.

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USA
Mexico
Santa Anna
James K Polk

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James W. Marshall
The American people

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Whitney's saw how southern plantation owners were desperate for a faster way to pick cotton.It took him seven months to make the Cotton Gin.The Cotton Gin made the separation  of seed and cotton much more easy.This made the Cotton Gin producing double the cotton then one person can.This made cotton profitable for southern plantations .This made a demand for more slave.

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Eli Whitney's was the inventor of the cotton Gin.
Southern plantation owners