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Congress reaches the compromise of 1850 , admitting california as a free state and passing the fugitive slave act .
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Gold discovered in California
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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin, A novel about slave life
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Republican groups operating in states across the north
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If the south goes along with northern route the missouri Comprmise line will be erased .
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Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law .
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Combined Freesoilers, Whigs,&Know-Nothings to form 1st Antislavery party
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Proslavery group attacks antislavery stronghold of lawrence, Kansas
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Senate 1858- These debates introduced L. to America. He lost but was popular
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John Brown seizes the federal arsenal at harpers ferry Virginia
