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Lead Up To Civil War
Lead Up To Civil War
4/18/2012
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Slavery a nation divided Compromise of 1850 KansasNebraska Act
Republican Party
Against slavery Abraham Lincoln
Known in Illinois but not the nation Lincoln vs. Douglas Debates
Election of 1860
Lincoln is the winner South is outraged
Fort Sumter
South Carolina was the first state to secede (leave) the United States Captured Federal forts in the South Fall of Fort Sumter marked the beginning of the Civil War