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John Brown was anti-slavery and in October of 1859 he came together with white supporters and free black people. They went to Harpers Ferry, Virginia and stole the government's weaponry.Brown chose to do this so that he could disperse the weapons to slaves. He wanted the slaves to rebel and fight against their slave owners. Although his group was able to obtain the weapons, they soon were surrounded and forced to surrender. Obviously, this caused division because the Southern states began to prepare just in case there were future raids. Southerners also didn't want the slaves to be free, so they were entirely against that idea.

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The Missouri Compromise started when Missouri was admitted as a slave state into the United States and Maine was allowed into the US as a free state, keeping the states balanced. This divided the nation because there was a line that was created to divide north and south as free and slave states. This meant that any state that was part of the Louisiana Purchase was immediately turned into a free state, and the slave states thought this was unfair.

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Nat Turner, a slave, and seventy supporters brutally murdered about sixty white people. Turner and fifty-five slaves were killed for their role in this riot. To add on, two hundred others were killed by mobs of people. This was the most barbarous rebellion of their time. This caused problems and divided the nation because Virginia lawmakers came to the conclusion of taking the few rights that black people had away from them. For example, having blacks have an education became illegal and the freedom to assemble was taken away.

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David Wilmot proposed a piece of legislation after the Mexican-American , which if passed would have banned slavery from any region that was obtained by the USA after the war. This land that was up for discussion was the majority of the Southwest that continued to California. All of his attempts to get the bill passed ended up failing every time. This caused the nation to divide because the strength of the dispute caused the first discussions of the nation splitting.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", which was the second best-selling book of the 19th century, after the Bible. Stowe's fictional stories of slavery opened Northerners eyes to the awfulness. The Southerners disagreed with these statements and said that Stowe information was false. Harriet Stowe's publication caused the nation to divide because people who remained unchanged by slavery to finally understand what was really going on and wanted change.

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The act that invalidated parts of the Missouri Compromise and allowed settlers in between Kansas and Nebraska to dictate whether slavery should be allowed by popular vote was called the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. This segregated the nation because rebels that were pro-slavery and anti-slavery went to Kansas to try to change the decisions of voters. Over the timespan of 5 years, unpredictable outbursts took the lives of 56 people. Although both Kansas and Nebraska ended up being free states, the violence that occurred appalled the nation.

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Dred Scott attempted to go to court and sue the slave owners for his freedom. This case ended up going through all the courts, and all the way up to the Supreme Court. The final decision of the judges was that since Scott was "property" he didn't have the same rights that a "human" had. This caused a division between the country because people wanted to give the political roles to different government officials, which was soon considered a problem because those were the people who prevented a civil war up to this point. Southerners finally agreed to the limitations of slave states, but this caused detachment between the states.

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While Abraham wasn't incorporated in most of the Southern voting ballots, he was still able to become president with a substantial difference in the amount of votes. The fact that he was completely opposed to slavery set panic into all of the Southern slave owners. A month after all of the polls ended, South Carolina left the Union. In the spring, six more states decided to leave the Union as well. This divided the union even more because a lot of people didn't like the proposal of not owning slaves, so the country was literally separating by leaving and breaking apart.

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Fort Sumter was a military camp in South Carolina. Lincoln decided that he wanted to send supplies to the troubled soldiers. The Confederate ships turned back the group of ships full of supplies and started a 34 hour attack of bombs, missiles, and shells. On April 14th, the fortress surrendered. The Civil had now officially begun. Lincoln called 75,000 people to volunteer for the Northern Army of April 15th. Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Virginia discontinued their relations to the federal government.

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The Compromise of 1850 made sure that slavery didn't extend into anymore of the United States. To help slave states, the government added the Fugitive Slave Act, which required Northerners to return escaped slaves to the Southerners. Although this compromise did delay any bloodshed between the North and South, it didn't actually address any of the problems that both sides had and didn't confront the main source that split the US. It also separated the nation because the Fugitive Slave Act led to more division between citizens who had moderate views in politics at the time.