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missouri compromise preserved the balance between slave and free states in the senate.between the north and the south grew into sectionalism
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with the backing of president taylor california applied to become a free state in 1849 meanwhile anti slavery forces wanted to ban slavery in washington.southerners wanted a strong national law that required states to return fugitive or enslaved people.southerners talked about seceding from or leaving the union.
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The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and President Franklin Pierce.popular sovereignty allowing the people to decide.thousands of pro slavery groups crossed the border just to vote in the election/boarder ruffians.
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The Sacking of Lawrence occurred on May 21, 1856, when pro-slavery activists, led by Douglas County Sheriff Samuel J. Jones, attacked and ransacked Lawrence, Kansas, a town which had been founded by anti-slavery settlers from Massachusetts who were hoping to make Kansas a "free state".
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On this day in 1857, the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, thereby negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party.
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The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (also known as John Brown's raid or The raid on Harpers Ferry) was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.others saw brown as a martyr a person who dies for a great cause.
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Abraham Lincoln elected president. ... In 1860, Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination. In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell.
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Battles of the U.S. Civil War. The U.S. Civil War was fought between the Union, which represented the government of the United States, and the Confederates who had left the United States to form the Confederate States of America. The attack on Fort Sumter is considered to be the first battle of the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address was delivered on Monday, March 4, 1861, as part of his taking of the oath of office for his first term as the sixteenth President of the United States. The speech was primarily addressed to the people of the South, and was intended to succinctly state Lincoln's intended policies and desires toward that section, where seven states had seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.
