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With the more land that it had purchased the more slaves they would need to grow and treaty the crops

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i think this had the biggest impact because i feel it caused the biggest separation between people
alexa cruz-cortez

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The north were to return slaves if found in the northern territory, which the northern´s came to an disagreement with the south. The northernerś didn´t agree with being apart of a system they disliked and disagreed upon which later lead to many conflicts between the south and north.

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he election of 1860 was one of the most pivotal presidential elections in American history. It pitted Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln against Democratic Party nominee Senator Stephen Douglas, Southern Democratic Party nominee John Breckinridge and Constitutional Union Party nominee John Bell. The main issue of the election was slavery and states’ rights. Lincoln emerged victorious and became the 16th President of the United States during a national crisis that would tear states and families apart and test Lincoln’s leadership and resolve: The Civil War.

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The south and the north were in dissagrement about the slaves th south want to keep the the north wanted to free them. If slaves did escape to the north the still had to return them.

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After years of trying to compromise, the bleeding Kansas incident was the breaking point for anti-slavery and pro-slavery Americans.
D.A.

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Abraham Lincoln was the character with the most impact during the antebellum since he was the one who took the issue of slavery to another level, being the insignia of his presidential campaign and as such symbolized a threat to the southern states that depended on slavery to generate capital. When Abraham Lincoln was elected as president there was already too much social and political pressure generated by his speech and abolitionist movements prior to him, but the election of Lincoln as president was the last straw, it generated the separation of the southern states and the formation of the Confederate States of America.

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Northerners began to feel as a part of a slave system because they were forced of finding escaped slaves

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after undoing the Missouri compromise and allowing free sovereignty and swarms of people on both side came to Kansas to sway the vote in there favor and then started attacking each other

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This would split Kansas into two states and the people would get to vote whether or not they should have slaves which would cause a major fight
-Landyn Encinias

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A law that required north and south citizens to return runaway slaves or be jailed or fined. This created an even bigger divided between the north and south.

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because so many people died because of slavery

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Runaway slaves were to be turned in or else people caught hiding them would be heavily charged in both the north and south. This was a problem because it made it so the northerners had to take place with a slave based system which they heavily disliked and caused many problems in return.

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Because violence already started and there was no way back

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The bleeding kansas was a time of pure violence against people who were proslavery and antislavery.

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I believe that the small-scale civil war in Kansas was a clear precursor to the civil war. That as well as the blunders of Buchanan, who in trying to push his pro-slavery views onto a state who wanted to be a free state further provoked U.S. citizens

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The Election of 186o was the most significant due to Lincoln (republican) winning the presidential election. This election lead to a more breakup of the north and south due to north wanting to stop spread of slavery (Lincoln's side) but south wanted to expand slavery.

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With the Louisiana Purchase the south wanted slavery to still be something happening, but they wanted there to be an equal amount of equal vs free states.

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