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Congress made Missouri a slave state on condition that the the rest of the north of the Lousiana purchase was free.
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Banned slavery in any land aquired from Mexico
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Let California in as a free state and Washington D.C. have no slave trade. Congress would not pass slave laws
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Federal Law allowed runaway slaves to be captured again and returned to the owner. If you witnessed a runaway slave, you were required by law to return him.
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A series of fights that occured in Kansas and Missouri area that involved pro and antislavery supporters.
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Kansas and Nebraska had new land opened up for settlement and allowed white males in the territories to vote as to weather slavery should or should not be legal
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In the court case between Dred Scott and Sandford, Dred Scott, a Virginia slave tried to sue his owner, Sandford. The case went to the Supreme court where they finally decided that Dred Scott was legal property of Sandford.
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A series of debates between Lincoln and Stephen Douglass for a spot of the Senate. Most of the debates concerned slavery, and in teh debates, they tried to win the vote of the people. Douglass won the debates.
