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- took place in Missouri and Maine
- northerners and southerners fought over whether which new states should be admitted as slave and free states
-  the further devision of states contributed to the social conflict between north and south, and continued the unchecked steady road to secession.

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- took place in Charleston, South Carolina
- the leader of a slave insurrection that never took place, planned  for Bastille Day.
- 131 men were arrested and 35 were hanged, including Vesey himself.
- This case was huge for the north, because it showed people that slaves could be arrested and hung for things for simply being suspected of revolution, and it increased tensions between northern and southern beliefs.

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December 10, 1832: Nullification Crisis  

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December 10, 1832: Nullification Crisis  

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- took place in South Carolina
- a dispute between South Carolina and the federal government, South Carolina believed that the federal government did not have the right to enforce tariffs.
- the south apposed tariffs from the get-go, and when their congress advocate and former vice president John Calhoun signed a compromise that most northerners agreed with, it was not enough for the state of South Carolina, who would later sign the Ordinance of Nullification, deny tariffs outright.
- the Ordinance failed due to the Force Bill in 1833, doubtlessly contributing to southern tensions with the union.

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- took place in Southampton County, Virginia
- A rebellion led by Nat Turner that lead to the death of 65 people, 51 or more of whom were white.
- this sort of blew up, until this point the American public still believed that slaves were happy and well taken care of, this revolt made the horror of day to day life as a slave something that nobody could ignore.
- the widespread coverage of this rebellion led to the northern public discovering how bad the conditions of slave life actually were, and fear among southerners of when the next rebellion might happen.

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October 2, 1835: Texas War for Independence

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October 2, 1835: Texas War for Independence

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- took place in Texas and Mexico
- A war between Texas and Mexico fought for Texan independence from Mexico, Texas was still a Mexican territory.
- Texas would later become a southern US state, and make up a huge portion of confederate land and manpower.

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April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848: Mexican American War

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April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848: Mexican American War

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- took place in Mexico, and the Texas and California territories.
- after Texas declared its independence from Mexico, both the US and Mexico felt they owned the land. The Mexican American War for the US was Manifest Destiny, an effort to expand, and for Mexico it was defending their land from invaders.
- the addition of this new land would lead to even more debate about slavery, furthering tensions within the union.

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- took place in the liminal space that is our justice system.
- it was an unsuccessful plan put in place by congress to keep slavery out of the new territory acquired by the civil war.
- proposed by Pennsylvania congressmen David Wilmot.
- Though it was unsuccessful, it sparked debate about the true principals of the Republican party.

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September 18, 1850: Compromise of 1850/ Fugitive Slave Law

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September 18, 1850: Compromise of 1850/ Fugitive Slave Law

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- took place in California, D.C., and all the US
- California was entered as a free state
- Slavery was abolished in D.C.
- Citizens were compelled to submit people they suspected to be runaway slaves to the federal government, contributing to the seemingly endless list of things the American government has done to suppress black people, and deepening the rift between north and south

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1830 to 1870: The Abolitionist Movement 

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1830 to 1870: The Abolitionist Movement 

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- took place through all of America and some of Europe
- an emotion driven revolution run by civilians responsible for creating the political climate necessary for the abolition of slavery

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- took place in the US between Secretary of State William L. Marcy and some choice southern diplomats about claiming Cuba as a US state
- was, at its core, a ploy to spread slavery and increase southern political power

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October 18, 1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act/ Bleeding Kansas 

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October 18, 1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act/ Bleeding Kansas 

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- took place in the newly minted state of Kansas
- it stated that Kansas would decide for itself whether or not to have slavery, leading to pro-slave and freesoilers to slaughter each other in droves (ie. Bleeding Kansas).
- Kansas eventually entered as a free state

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- took place in Virginia and Wisconsin
- Scott was moved to the free territory of Wisconsin, when his owner tried to move him back to the slave state of Virginia, he argued that he had been made a free man once he became a citizen of Wisconsin.
- not only was he denied, but to Supreme Court ruled that black people could not be considered people.
- this broke the trust of the people from the Supreme Court and from the government, and added to list of things people against slaves were getting mad about

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October 16, 1859 – October 18, 1859: John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry 

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October 16, 1859 – October 18, 1859: John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry 

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- John Brown was a certifiably crazy person, if crazy was a transmittable disease then this guy would need to life in isolation.
- He believed that God had called him to kill every slave holder in the south and effectively burn down the southern agricultural economy
- when his plan inevitably failed and the government had him hanged, he became the immortal spark that the Abolitionist movement needed, all the chips had fallen into place, now all we need is a leader.

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- took place in D.C. and all over the US (except arguably all the southern states where Lincoln never appeared on the ballet)
- the fear of having an Abolitionist president drove South Carolina to secede (followed by several other slave states) the pinnacle of white flight.