(novanet) most crops were tended with slave labor
The north and the south became tow separate political entities.
Because John Brown was outnumbered and he should have had a lot more people to start with. Few black or white Americans were prepared to join a rebellion led by a fanatical abolitionist.
Taney led the U.S. Supreme Court as Chief Justice in the Dred Scott decision.
The Dred Scott decision declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and ruled that slaves were property. The decision did not necessarily alarm most people in the North.
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He hoped to inspire a revolution that would end slavery.
Lincoln argued that it was wrong to decide whether to allow slavery in a state or territory by voting