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Idea of building a railroad to pacific ocean
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Free Soil Party Formed
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Fugitive slave act
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Compromise of 1850
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Whigs Convention
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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Anthony Burns arrested
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Republican Party is formed
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Uncle Tom's Cabin published
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Brooks beats Sumner unconscious with a cane
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Pottawatomie Massacre
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Lincoln Douglas debates
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John Brown's Raid
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Confederate States of America is formed
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Constitutional Union Party is formed