Civil War
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| The first African slaves were brought to what is now the US in... | the early 1600s
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| If a slave owner beat a slave to death, the owner.... | would suffer no penalty.
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| When the Declaration of Independence was written.... | it did not mention slavery because that would have angered many, especially in Southern states.
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| The writers of US Constitution in 1787 said that... | the importing of slaves from outside the US could be stopped in 20 years.
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| The Missouri Compromise... | kept the balance between slave states and free states; drew a line showing where there could and could not be future slave states; brought Missouri into the Union; brought Maine into the Union.
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| The concept of "popular sovereignty" meant that... | the people of new states could vote whether to be slaves or free.
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| Personal liberty laws... | were passed in many Northern states to guarantee freedom to ex slaves.
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| The Dred Scott case said that... | if a slave was brought to a "free" state, they were still a slave and the whole "slave state" and "free state" thing was rather meaningless.
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| When Abraham Lincoln ran for president... | he pledged to work to end the spread of slavery to new states.
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| The American Civil War... | lasted for about 4 years; started with a string of Union defeats on the batterfield; saw a large percentage of young, white Southern men killed and ended in 1865.
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