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Congress tried to expand slavery into the NEW western territory
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Congress passed a law saying Americans can't participate in African slave trade
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New York passed a law freeing all black on July 4,1827 that weren't freed by the emancipation act in 1799
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Tried to seperate evenly between slave startes and free states in the United States.
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Helped stop slavery from expanding but strengthening the fugitive slave act
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Harriet Beecher Stowes book the second best selling book in teh world behind the Bible. The book epended the eyes of a lot of people and exposed the real cruelty of slavery.
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Established popular sovereignty regarding slavery.
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A virginia slave that tried to sue for his freedom that went all the way to the supreme court where the justices found that since he was a slave he was property and didnt the the right to sue.
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John Brown was a abolotionist that planned to help end slaevery by raiding the governments arsenal and taking all the weapons the distributing them to slaves to rebel.
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Southenerns feared because of Lincolns political party and outlook on slavery, they thought he was going to try and end slavery even though he wasn't.