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Compromise of 1850
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Federal marshals arrested African American James Hamlet
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Four leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination emerged
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Pierce won the election by a large margin
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Anthony Burns, a fugitive slave from Virginia, was arrested in Boston
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Douglas introduced what became the Kansas- Nebraska Act
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John Bell opposed the Kansas- Nebraska Act
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Elections for the Kansas territorial legislature were held
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A new territorial governor arrived and began to restore order
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Brooks used a walking cane to beat Sumner unconscience
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A congressional committee arrived in Kansas to decide which government was legitimate
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John Brown's raid began!!!
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As expected, the judge ordered Brown to be hanged
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South Carolina elected to dissolve "the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states."
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President Lincoln was inaugurated
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Congress accepted the construction of a railroad