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Wilmot Proviso
this bill aimed to outlaw slavery in terriotories taken from Mexico. the bill passed in the House of Representatives but was defeated in the senate thus causing a division in Congress. Although, not a success it led to the formation of the Free Soil Party. -
Compromise of 1850
some people celebrated the compromise, thinking it would save the Union but it did not bring peace. The compromise was a series of laws that settled the disagreement of free states and slave states. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
the north and the south, the issue of slavery is the territories brought bloodshed to the west. -
Bleeding Kansas
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caning of Sumner
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Dred Scott V. Standford
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Attack on Harpers Ferry
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Election of Lincoln
