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The fugitive slave act stated that all runaway slaves be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state.Federal government was also responsible for finding them and bringing them back to their owners.The fugitive slave act also stated that citizens were required to help in the recovery in fugitive slaves.Around 15000 slaves escaped the south between 1850 and 1860 but only 330 were caught and brought back.

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Uncle toms cabin was a book about what life was like as a slave. In the book when Tom was getting shipped off he saves a little girl named Eva but then her health declines and on her deathbed she asked Tom to free all slaved people but he sadly got killed by his owner because refused to disclose the location of serval escaped slaves.The book was so controversial because it was talking about how having slaves and just slavery in general is un-constitutional and un-Christian.THIS IS NON RELATED;so there’s a link to a website and I can’t get it to go away so try not to click it!!

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The Kansas Nebraska act separated the new territories so they could allow popular sovereignty .This bill was super controversial because it caused something called bleeding Kansas as different proslavery and anti slavers flooded into different territories to sway the votes.

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The Dred Scott vs. Sanford case was a court decision that basically said that American citizenship didn’t count for African American people that they have no rights.Dred Scott and his wife went to court and sued for freedom in st.Louis but the judge that day was extremely rasist and stated that African Americans don’t have any rights or privileges since they weren’t technically citizens and that they don’t matter this is to be said one of the reasons for the civil war.

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The fort Sumter attack was said to be the biggest lead to the war and the reason the war started.This attack was lead by Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard,The fort Sumter attack happed when Abraham Lincoln announced plans to resupply the fort,Confederate troops bombed fort sumeter for 36 hours when fort sumeter surrendered.the war happened because because the confederate troops couldn’t stand a federal fort blocking an Important sea port their was nearly 3300 shots were fired during the attack.