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Many people wanted Missouri to become a state but it was an issue of whether it would be free or a slave state. The amendment stated that Missouri should be part of the US but only as a free state.

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Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free one to keep the balance in the Senate. They drew an imaginary line across the Louisiana Purchase determining where slavery was legal and where it wasn’t to keep both the North and South happy.

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A bill offered by David Wilmot that stated they could’t have slavery nor involuntary servitude in any part of Mexico that would be acquired by the US. This made the South angry as they wanted to be able to continue expanding slavery.

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Many people had trouble deciding if California would become pat of the union as a slave state or free state, since it would upset the balance between free and slave states. Henry Clay offered that they allow California as a free state and Utah and New Mexico territories to decide if they want to allow slavery.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a book that was released about the horrors of slavery and what many slaves go through in the South. It made many Northerners more aware and more anti-slavery.

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Made Kansas and Nebraska states while abolishing the Missouri Compromise by allowing the states to vote on whether they want to allow slavery. Northerners were upset because they believed this was another way for the SOuth to spread slavery.

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Kansas was divided into two sides, pro and anti-slavery. The opposition and disagreements over this issue began to turn violent and leading to th raid of Lawrence, Kansas. Many pro-slavery settlers raided the home of the anti-slavery settlers, where they burned down hotels and looted buildings.

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Dred Scott was a slave who had traveled to Wisconsin(a free state) and went back to Missouri to argue for his freedom. The Supreme Court later decided that Scott should not be able to sue in federal court, and that he would not be free since the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. This was okay with many Southerners but people in the North were very upset by this.

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Abraham Lincoln had recently lost the election. He supported many abolitionists(people who wanted to get rid of slavery). John Brown planned a raid on Harper’s Ferry to seize many of the weapons kept buy Southerners. The raid got many of his mean captured or killed and ended with lots of bloodshed and Brown was sentenced to treason.

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Abraham Lincoln ran a second time and won with 40% of the votes. He wasn’t voted for in many Southern states causing the South to realize they had the minority of votes.

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Since Abraham Lincoln was elected and he was very anti-slavery, the South decided they didn’t want to be part of the US anymore. They wanted to start their own government where they could own slaves and expand slavery. This is the main event that caused the Civil War.