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The Missouri Compromise
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Tariff of Abominations is passed
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William Lloyd Garrison publishes the Liberator
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Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
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"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" published
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The Wilmot Proviso is proposed
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is published
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Charles Sumner Gets Caned
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President Lincoln is elected
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The South seceeds