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Abraham election
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president becoming the first Republican to win the presidency -
Missouri Compromise
Congress to end the first of a series of crises concerning the extension of slavery. -
compermise of 1850
Five bills passed and was a four year conferntation between the slave states. -
kansas nebraska act
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement -
brooks sumner incedent
Brooks then decided to "punish" Sumner with a public beating -
John brown raid
an attemp by the white abolitionist to start an armed slave revolt in 1859
