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1846 - 1857
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Dred Scott was an enslaved man who sued for his freedom. He lived in a free state with his owner for a time, so he argued that his time in the free state made him free. It took a decade to come to a permanent decision, which was that he was still a slave. He was sold to a man that freed him a few months after the trial ended
1849
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California qualified for admission to the Union due to the rise in population. They wanted to be a free state, but the Iowa and Wisconsin had been admitted as free states in the past two years, so this would throw off the equal distribution of slave and free states. In the end, California was admitted as a free state, which angered the slave states, who threatened to secede.
1850
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The Fugitive Slave Act gave slave owners government help in recapturing runaway slaves. The North protested this, and this led to the "slave-power conspiracy." The North believed that the South wanted to force slavery into every state.
1852
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which was published n 1852. This opened people's eyes to what was happening in the South, and made more people into abolitionists. 560,000 English women signed a petition to end slavery.
1854
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed people to vote on whether to be a slave state or free state, which led to violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups. This violence continued into the Civil War, where there was violence between the same groups, but on a much larger scale.
1856 - 1865
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John Brown and a group of abolitionists attacked a group of pro-slavery men, killing 5 people.
1858
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The main topic of the debate was slavery, Lincoln against and Douglas for. In this debate, Lincoln warned that the United States "cannot permanently endure permanently half slave and half free...It will become one thing, or all the other."
1859
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John Brown led a group of abolitionists to an arsenal at Harper's Ferry. They attempted to take the arsenal, hoping to give weapons to slaves and set off a nation-wide slave revolt. After this, John Brown was tried and hanged for treason and murder.
1860
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Abraham Lincoln was an abolitionist. He wanted to see slavery ended and the Union held together.
1860
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The South seceded from the Union. The North did not want the Union to be split.