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Evaluate the relative importance of political events and issues that divided the nation and led to civil war, including the compromises reached to maintain the balance of free and slave states, the abolitionist movement, the Dred Scott case, conflicting views on states' rights and federal authority, the emergence of the Republican Party, and the formation of the Confederate States of America.

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1.  Abolition - The act of getting rid of/ abolishing a system, practice, or institute. In this case it was against slavery.

2. Compromise of 1850 - Proposed by Henry Clay and Stephen Douglass, the compromise admitted CA as a free state, UT and NM popular sovereignty, stricter fugitive slave law, slave trade abolished in Washington D.C.

3. Republican Party - Created in 1854 because of anger by Whigs, Free Soil, and few antislavery Democrats people to stop the spread of slavery.

4. Dred Scott v. Sandford - A case between a slave, Scott, and his "owner", Stanford. Scott escaped a ran away to a free state but was caught and he declares he is a freeman. Decision: Declared slaves were not citizens and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

5. Secession - The action of withdrawing from a government, political body, etc. The south did this and created the Confederate States of America.

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P: I see a giant man having an African american shoved down his throat by multiple people while others hold down his head.

I: Because I see an African American being shoved down this mans throat I think it is referring to slavery.

C: Because I see the words Free Soiler and I think of slavery this is showing how free soilers are having slavery shoved down their throats.