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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was used to balance the power of the amount of slave states and free states that were admitted into the Union. When Missouri was admitted into the Union as a slave states, Maine legally had to be admitted as a free state. This is how the power was balanced in the government so that there weren’t more free or slave states working in the government. -
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Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was supposed to be a solution to problems that the North and the South disagreed about. It was a mixture between views. Some thing that the South wanted, they got and some things that the North wanted, they got as well. Most of it had to do with the spread of slavery into the new Western Territories. -
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom’s cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. She felt like it was her calling to try and help end slavery in the United States. She published her book and it sold over 300,000 copies in a year. It helped sway some people’s views on the idea of slavery. Abraham Lincoln met her and said, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!” Her book exposed people in the North to the truth of slavery. They had never seen slavery in its real form. -
Kansas Nebraska Act/ Bleeding Kansas
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Lincoln Douglas Debate
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John Brown's Raid
John Brown’s Raid was revolt against slavery in the South. Brown gathered just a handful of men to go free slaves in the South. The revolt only lasted a little while until Brown was caught and sentenced to death. He said just before his death that the Bible had instructed him to care for the poor and helpless, so he was willing to die for that. His crimes were murder and treason. -
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Southern Secession
The Southern states decided that enough was enough and the only way to prevent a war was to succeed. Some of the slaves declared that they were going to secede, but President Lincoln had to find a way to keep that from happening. This is almost the point of history where the Civil War began. The first states to leave were Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. The next major event after the secession was Fort Sumter where the first real action for the Civil War happens.
