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This is a legal action made in hopes that slaves, of African decent or not, couldn't become citizens, undoing years of progress toward abolishment.

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This is where a lot of anit-slavery people and attacked the pro-slavery people. This started a few years known as Bleeding Kansas.

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The Pottawatomie Massacre: The Event that Caused the American Civil War - Life of John Brown Ep: 1

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This was where a bunch of pro-slavery people went and raided a village full of aint-slavery settlers.

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These two states were made in during the era of transportation and Stephan Douglas wanted them to be slave states. The south insisted that there was to be an election to make the choice.

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This is where the south made the territories of New Mexico and Utah as slave states when California was created as a free state. They also made the fugitive slave act in this compromise.

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With the Missouri compromise, it stated that there was not to be allowed any slave states north of Missouri's southern border.

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Unforseen Issues with the Declaration of Independence

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Unforseen Issues with the Declaration of Independence

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Before the finishing of the Delcaration of Independence, there was a part that stated that there wouldn't be slavery, but they removed it in fear of losing the southern's support.

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With the south feeling excluded when it came to federal elections, they formed their own nation.

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Stories of Secession - How Virginia Seceded

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With Abraham Lincon as president, it really put it out there that the south and little to no input.

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The south wanted to take slavery into the west. The north wanted it to say within what area it is then.

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Ten Minute History - Westward Expansion and the American Civil War (Short Documentary)

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The Southern states wnated more political control of what they do with their slaves and how they do thier way of life.

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Southern economics depended heavily on slavery, which the north didn't like.

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John Brown killed many pro-slavery people in Nabraska. The south was thinking that there would be more people like him.