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200: American Civil War: The Causes (Part 1)
The Rest Is History
The Dread Scott Case, and the John Brown Case.
Lincoln's election in 18 60 was the trigger. He won a big majority in the electoral college, despite winning only a small minority of the national popular vote. A bill came before congress to organize kansas as the united states territory. The territorial legislature of this new territory would determine for itself whether or not slavery existed. For anti-slavery northerners, this was an extraordinary betrayal. John brown went there to fight for the free state cause and committed atrocities that were committed by enslaved people at virginia. But you say he's fighting on behalf of the slaves? Is he sholdase a terrorist? I mean, how old testam does it have to be with gun
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