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It was an agreement that let Missouri enter the union as a slave state and it outlawed slavery in any territories.
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Henry Clay's proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the union as a free state and divided the rest of Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty.
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was an attempt to overcome the barriers that were being set up by free states against the Fugitive Act of 1793.
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It's an anti-slave novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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there were thirty men who felt that a new party has to be formed with the intention of stoppinh the spread of slavery throughout the United States.
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It was a law that allowed voters that were in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether or not to allow slavery.
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It was a case that was decided by the Supreme Court. It was seen as a landmark decision for the constitutionality and legality of slavery.
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John Brown had hopes that local slave populations would join in on the raid and through the raid’s success weapons would be given to slaves and freedom fighters throughout the country but the slaves never joined in.
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When Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Dougles, and John Bell all ran for presedent and Abraham Lincoln won.
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The general in command of the Confederate forces near Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter.