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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise is passed. -
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Causes Of The Civil War
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Compromise of 1850
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Fugitive Slave Law
Fugitive Slave Law is passed, allowing free people to capture a run away slave to return them. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin publication
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a novel highlighting the horrors of slavery, is published. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
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Birth of the Republican Party
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Dred Scott v. Sanford
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John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry
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First Shots fired at Fort Sumter
First Shots fired at Fort Sumter, Civil War begins -
Election of 1860
lincoln is elected president.