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Events Leading to Civil War

  • Missouri Compromise

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    Events before Civil War

  • Garrison publishes "The Liberator"

  • Garrison Organizes Against Slavery

  • Compromise Tariff of 1833

  • Wilmot Proviso

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Fugitive Slave Act

  • Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

    no exact date
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Dred Scott Decision

  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  • Lincoln Elected President

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