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The Missouri Compromise
It was a temporary solution to the slavery issues in unorganized territories http://www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise -
Compromise Tariff Act
It passed as a means of gradually reducingthe tariffs of concern in the southern states. http://www.britannica.com/topic/Compromise-of-1833 -
Frederick Douglass
Former slave, Frederick Douglass, published his autobiography--narrativeof the life of Frederick Douglass -
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War of Mexico
This war occurred due to southerners disliking one of Mexico's leaders http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/war/ -
Compromise of 1850
This was a series of 5 statutes that diffused the slavery issue between the slave statesof the south and the free states of the north http://www.ushistory.org/us/30d.asp -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The act passes congress and thus oerturns the Missouri Compromise opening the Northern territory to slavery. Both sides begin to send settlers into the areas in an effort to influence the future status of these areas -
Lincoln wins presidential election
Lincoln, an anti-slavery republican, wins the 1860 presidential election http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abraham-lincoln-elected-president -
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The Civil War!
