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The Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and created a line between the North and South with the North being free states and the South being slave states, and it was was one of the causes of the Civil War.

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It prevented further territorial expansion of slavery, but strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act. It divided the country along the lines of slavery. The South resented limitations on slavery but Northerners resented the role they played in furthering slavery in the South.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a fictional exploration of slave life, and it lead to the Civil War because it brought the issue of slave life to the forefront yet again.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act overturned parts of the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers in two territories to determine wether or not to permit slavery by popular vote.

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Dred Scott was a Virginia Slave who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom. The decision in his case decided that as a slave he was a piece of property and did not have the rights that people had.

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In Fort Sumter on April 12,1861 Confederate war ships turned back a supply convoy to the fort and opened a 34-Hour bombardment on the fort, which started a major conflict of the Civil War.