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An agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal.
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Bipartisan, antislavery party founded in the United States in 1848 to keep slavery out of the western territories.
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Agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed.
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An 1852 novel byHarriet Beecher Stowe written to show the evils of slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Act.
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An 1854 law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery.
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Political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories.
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More than 200 people had been killed. So the newspapers started to call the territory "Bleeding Kansas."
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John was a abolitionist. He and his four sons and two other men to the town of Pottawatomie Creek. In the middle of the night, they dragged five proslavery settlers from their beds and murdered them.
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An 1857 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom and lost; case brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories.
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The election of 1860 was about who would win the election between Lincoln and John Bell.