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Charles Sumner was an 1800's northern republican senator who was anti-slavery, during a speech on whether or not Kansas should be a free state or slave state, he was caned by pro slavery senator Preston Brooks.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book that was published in 1852 about how slaves were treated as property and not people.

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Uncle Toms Cabin: An Abolitionist Bestseller

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Bleeding Kansas was a series of battles and terrorist attacks caused by both northern citizens and southern sympathizers, these were caused by Kansas having a vote for weather or not it should allow slavery for the intercontinental railroad. This is usually said to be started by radical abolitionist and anti-racist John Brown

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The Fugitive Slave Act was a law that allowed southern slave owners to go into the north and basically accuse any person of color of being an escaped slave then being able to take them.

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The Republican Party was a party formed to oppose the Democratic Party. The Republican party was mainly in the north, and the Democratic Party was mainly in the south. (also fun fact the republican party was formed in Wisconsin in Ripon)

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Many southern slave states had broke off from the union, causing a new unrecognized country called the confederacy to be born.

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The Underground Railroad a was network of secret trails and safe houses for slaves to escape through. A good deal of the slaves escaped through it were by Harriet Tubman.

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The Missouri Compromise was a not really compromise where the south wasn't allowed a slave state above the 36th parallel.

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The north and the south had both seen each other's economy boom from the industrial revolution and the cotton gin. This generated fear which in turn generated violence.

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The 1860 election had seen Abraham Lincoln win as president, this caused the south to fear that they were losing power and that they should break off.

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The south feared that the north was going to free all of the slaves.

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Tensions rose between both sides as they each feared one side would be more powerful than the other, if the north had more free states, the northern republicans would win, if the south had more slave states, the southern democrats would win. Thus causing multiple states to be formed, some of these include: Maine, Missouri, California, Wisconsin, Texas, and Florida.

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Slavery was obviously a very hot topic during 1800's america, the north seeing it as evil, while the south saw it as profitable.

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as fear arose in both the north and the south both sides were getting ready for a battle, they just didn't know who would start, but then the confederates attacked fort sumter, many see this as the start of the civil war.