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Compromise of 1850 including the Fugitive Slave Act passed
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published in book form
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Republican Party founded
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Period: to
Bleeding Kansas
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Dred Scott Decision
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Lecompton Constitution
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Panic of 1857
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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Lecompton Constitution rejected by Congress
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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry federal arsenal
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Democratic Party splits into Northern and Southern halves
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Lincoln elected President
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South Carolina secedes from the Union
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7 other states secede
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Creation of the Confederate States of America