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In order to keep order in the U.S. congress, the union added Maine as a free state while the South added Missouri. They also banned slavery from the remaining territory of the Louisiana Purchase that is located above the 36°30' parallel

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The Liberator begins publication ( Jan 1, 1831)

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The Liberator begins publication ( Jan 1, 1831)

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A man by the name of William Lloyd Garrison, an anti-slavery supporter and later leader, published "The Liberator" worldwide. With his publications, many Americans hated or loved him.

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Nat Turner Revolt ( August 21 to 23 of 1831)

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Nat Turner Revolt ( August 21 to 23 of 1831)

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A enslaved man led a rebellion with more than 200 other enslaved men to oppose the prohibition of education, movement, and the traffic of enslaved people.

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A war between the Americans and the Mexican Army whose it was won by the Americans with the newly gained Texan, New Mexico, and California territories.

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Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions to lower the altercations between the south and the North. It consisted of 5 laws that dealt with the slavery and the expansion of slavery into the new territories.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin published ( June 5, 1851)

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin published ( June 5, 1851)

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A novel created by Harriet Beecher Stowe to show the American public what really was happening with slavery in the United States. This helped with the cause of the Civil War.

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Republican Party formed (March 20, 1854)

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Republican Party formed (March 20, 1854)

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Members from the Whig party wanted to create a party that opposed slavery into the new western Territories. They created the Republican party to solve this issue.

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This act repealed the Missouri Compromise. They formed two new territories from what was left from the Louisiana purchase, Kansas and Nebraska territories. They let the people from both South and North to vote what type of state it should become. Both pro-slavery and anti-slavery killed themselves by their difference in what its called now "Bloody Kansas".

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On this day a member from the House of Representatives by the name of Preston Brooks, from South Carolina, thought that Massachusetts' Senator, Charles Sumner, took it too far with his speech called "The Crime against Kansas" a few days earlier so Brooks decided to go inside the senate and beat Sumner unconscious.

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Dred Scott was a slave from the South that escaped and went to free states. By a legal case in the Supreme Court, was not granted his freedom. This also prohibited all slaves that escaped any type of U.S. citizenship.

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A small group of people lead by John Brown and his sons started a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in order to destroy the institution of slavery.

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Lincoln was elected President (Nov 6, 1860)

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Lincoln was elected President (Nov 6, 1860)

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On November 6, 1860, the United States had its 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.

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South Carolina secedes (December 20, 1860)

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South Carolina secedes (December 20, 1860)

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South Carolina was the first state to secede which later many of the other southern states which later caused the civil war on April 12, 1861.