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In 1830 abolitionist movement began to become more organized, radical and powerful to end than earlier campaigns. This made the fist for slavery become more violent and powerful all over the nation as the north was doing everything in their power to stop slavery.

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In 1804 Thomas Jefferson sent the Corps of Discovery to map and learn about the new Louisiana territory. When they returned after their 2.5 year journey with such good news it spread like wild fire in community's that they would have a chance to leave their lives and start new ones with endless opportunity or in other cases violence and protests for what the believe in and want.

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In 1848 the first gold was discovered in California which really set of Westward expansion to a entirely new level. This had thousands of people rushing to California tying to make fortunes and start new lives. Once the gold rush was over the territory had no need for slaves and wanted to become a free state in the union they were allowed which made the south outraged.

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1801: Thomas Jefferson elected as president

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1801: Thomas Jefferson elected as president

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In 1801 Thomas Jefferson was elected as the 3 president of the United states. He negotiated for the land of the Louisiana territory which the purchase was controversial because he said his power was implied. But him buying this new land for new states would not only open up a world of opportunities but also a generation on fighting over who would get more power.

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After America bough this land from Mexico the real question was weather or not this land would be a free or slave territory. On one hand it was below the Missouri compromise line and should be in slave territory but on the other hand California was free and breaking the rules set. The north wanted to stop as much new stats joining as slave as possible. So in the end it only lead to more confusion, conflict and arguments what to be done with the area because what they had planned no longer worked.

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In 1859 the government decided to let the status of Kansas's territory to be settled by popular sovereignty. This was in the end the worst thing they could have chose because people of pro and anti slavery came from all around to take the territory as their own. People were stabbed and slashed to death in their sleep and the conflict was only getting worse by the day spreading ravenously throughout the country.

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In 1859 the abolitionist John Brown led 21 other abolitionist down to a Ferry in West Virginia. They planed to take over the town's governments armory and start a uprising against slavery all around America. This was happening everywhere around America at the time with people tying to support all of their beliefs which would eventually lead to all out war.

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When the house of Representatives was created it gave more power to the states that had more population this made the south angry and hostile because a big chuck of their population were slaves. They made a compromise to temporarily solve the problem by counting each slave as 3/5s of a person. But would eventually cause problems because the slaves were counted but their opinions were not.

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When America started to expand out west they made a ordinance that banned slavery in 3-5 states that would be made in the new northwest territory. This made the south worried and mad about their salves and began to threaten to leave the union

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The constitution gave the Executive has the power to suppress all riots or insurrections to maintain law and order. This meant depending on the president the slaves could have more power protesting and standing up for themselves. This lead to the civil war because most presidents were trying to stop slavery and would not do much to stop their protesting

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1861: Abraham Lincoln elected as president

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1861: Abraham Lincoln elected as president

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Abraham Lincoln fought for slavery to end and that all men would be created equal. He declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy. He played a big part in stooping slavery which made southerners mad and eventually lead to his assassination's.

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1850: Slave trade ended in Washington D.C

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1850: Slave trade ended in Washington D.C

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This was a massive win for the north because the capital was an example for the rest of the country and the worth. When they ended the slave trade this showed that America was trying to get rid of slaves because their capital was getting rid of them. This made the south mad because slavery was being banned all around them.

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In 1848 America offered to purchase the land now California, Utah, Nevada, etc. from Mexico. When they refused arguments and tensions started to arise when war broke out. This is known as the Mexican American war. When America won the war and land this opened up new territory for new states, but the status of the states was decided by popular sovereignty

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Before 1854 the land of Kansas and Nebraska were Native American territory but it was proposed to split the land and open it to make a transcontinental railway. This made things worse because people began to flood into Kansas both pro and anti slavery to win the popular sovereignty vote. This became a breeding ground for violence and war to break (Especially in Kansas) out between them and people of the senate. Which eventually lead to war.

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In 1793 the souths economy began to explode with more and more slaves being forced to work with the invention of the cotton gin. This made the separation of the seeds and the cotton much easier and now that the south was making more money they had more power this caused tensions in the north because they wanted to stop slavery but at the same time they wanted money.

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The massive population boom to California because of the gold rush made made it have the requirements to join the union as a state. They joined as a free state and this made the south mad because it fell below the 36, 30 line that was drawn in the Missouri compromise void. This caused many tensions between the south and north to grow larger. The way this was settled was they made the laws for catching escaping slaves much stronger which was massive for the south to keep their slaves.

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After America had obtained the Louisiana territory it had been relatively easily to keep it balanced by adding a free and slave state at the same time but when Missouri applied to join the union and as a slave state it caused major conflicts about what type of state it would be the north worrying that the south would become to powerful if it was a salve state and vice versa. In the end they added Maine to the union at the same time as a free state to keep senate balanced and drew a line on the 36, 30 line with everything below slave and everything above was free.

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1803: Thomas Jefferson Purchases the Louisiana territory.

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1803: Thomas Jefferson Purchases the Louisiana territory.

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Thomas Jefferson, Purchased the Louisiana territory from the France because they had no more ambitions in America and were focusing on Europe with being in a war with Britain, this impacted the united states because it doubled its total land they had. This lead to the civil war because people were worried if the new states would be free or slave states.

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1800: France acquires the Louisiana territory 

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1800: France acquires the Louisiana territory 

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On October 1, 1800, 24 hours after signing a peace treaty with the United States, the leader of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, acquired Louisiana from Spain from the secret Treaty of "San Ildefonso." This is event is key because this could possibly allow the united states to bye back New Orleans and expand west because of their peaceful relations. This leads to the civil war because without France acquiring the Louisiana territory America may have never gone west.

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1783: America wins the revolutionary war.

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1783: America wins the revolutionary war.

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The Revolutionary war was won by the United States and they acquired land west from the Appalachian mountains from Great Britain. This gives them the opportunity to make more states and grow economically and in population but makes the south and north begin to talk about making free and slave states.