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Life was different in the north and south. the north had factories, industry, cities, paid labor, free blacks and the south had farming, small towns, slaves, white supremacy. Countries usually have a civil war when this type of diversity happens.

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Missouri was added as a slave state and Maine was added as a free state and slavery was banned in all new states above latitude 36'60

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The south made 75% of the worlds cotton at the time. The south was mad they had to pay taxes when they traded with Europe and the threat of a civil war was looming.

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After California became a state pro-slavery and anti-slavery activists argued whether it should be a slave state or a free state. In the end California became a free state but in return the South got the Fugitive Slave Act which means any runaway slaves who made it to the north would have to be sent back to the south to their masters.

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A anti slavery novel was published in 1852, it was written by a house wife named Harriet Beecher Stowe who hid a runaway slave in the north after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed and in the book it reveals the horrors and atrocities of slavery. Even though the book is considered fiction all the events are based on reality.

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The government got rid of The Missouri Compromise and slaver was no longer banned above latitude 36'60. People residing in Kansas and Nebraska hold elections to see if slavery should be allowed in those states, there was some cheating happened and both anti-slaver and pro-slavery activists claimed victory and violence happened and many people were killed and it went on for 5 years.

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A black slave sued for his freedom and the case went to The Supreme Courts which was full of pro slavery people and The Supreme Court made a bunch of laws saying blacks had no freedom in court and a bunch of other stuff. This decision outraged Abolitionists across the country.

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Harper's Ferry, Virginia had the largest arsenal of weapons in the south but it was weakly defended so a Anti Slavery Activist by the name of John Brown decided to raid it with his sons and other slaves he gathered but on the night of the raid no slaves showed up so he and his sons raid it either way but his sons get caught and John Brown gets imprisoned and executed.

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The south told the north that if a republican became president then the south would secede (leave) the country and make their own country full of slavery and when a republican became president which was Abraham Lincon it was the last straw for the south.

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11 southern states leave the Union and become their own country calling it the "Confederate States Of America