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California's admission as a free states
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An anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe
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A war between North and South over slavery in the United States.
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Territories will determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory
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Decision says the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the territories, and that blacks (both slave and free) were not protected by the Constitution and were not U.S. citizens
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An attempt by abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt
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Lincoln is elected as President
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Led to the establishment of the Confederacy and ultimately the civil war
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The Start of the Civil War
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The blockade of Southern ports, and the advancement down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two.
