and character. The Missouri Compromise violating the law that drew the line through all the rest of the lands of the Louisiana Purchase, excluding slavery from the north of the parallel of 36º 30', triggered every event that led up to the civil war.

Missouri shouldn't have been admitted as a slave state because if we do so there will be more slave states than free states and this will give us a great disadvantage in the national government. It is north of the 36º 30`N parallels so right there it is contradicting the law of free states and slave states. The Missouri Compromise said that they would add a free state for every slave state added. This got the North and South nowhere into

settling the disputes over slavery. Also there should not even be any slave states to begin with. In a way the Missouri Compromise did help us out in the North because it kept the power in the government equal, yet it was still a tremendous cause of the Civil War.

The Election of 1860 was the turning point in whether the North and South would go to war with each other. The men running in the election were Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and John Bell. In the end Abraham Lincoln was elected President. Soon afterwards South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded from the Union. In February of 1861, delegates met in Montgomery, Alabama and declared themselves the Confederate States of America. Because of the small intellect of those seven Southern states, we are now at war with each other. The South is being selfish because they are too lazy to free the slaves and to work the lands they own with their own hands, to feel what it is like to suffer from hours without rest under a beating sun. We here in the North greatly disagree with what the South is doing and we strongly back the slaves and their fight for

We are outraged at the Supreme Courts' decision on the Dred Scott vs. Sandford suit that happened in 1857. Dred Scott lived up here in the Northern states and should be in fact free. Aren't northern slaves free? The Justices ruled unfairly in the decision. Scott should not be considered property and their iniquitous decision refuses to let this man have the rights that he deserves. Doesn't the constitution give everyone the right to sue someone else? The fact that some men have no freedom a

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