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Compromise of 1850 - California was admitted to the Union as a free state and a new, stricter Fugitive Slave Law was instituted. The new law required Northerners to return runaway slaves to the South. New Mexico and Utah would engage in popular sovereignty (voting) to determine whether they would be free or slave states., Uncle Tom's Cabin - A novel that demonstrated the human cost of slavery., Kansas-Nebraska Act  - This law resulted in a lot of bloodshed in these two new states as voters decided whether to be free or slave., Dred Scott v. Sandford - As a result of this decision, slaves were determined to be property who had no legal rights., Election of 1860 - Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of the United States. South Carolina responded by seceding and attacking the Union fort at Fort Sumter, North - This side's strategy was to blockade the South (anaconda), split the Confederacy at the Mississippi River and capture the capitol of Richmond, Virginia, South - This side led a defensive war and were motivated to defend their states. ,

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