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Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book written by Harriet Stowe. The book was seen as anti-slavery and it would also be a best seller.
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Bloody Kansas was a mini civil war between citizens in Kansas deciding if they were to be a slave state or free state.
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After the Whig Party went away the Republican party was created because of the issue of slavery. The Republican party was fully against slavery.
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The Kansas - Nebraska Act would spilt the territory into multiple smaller ones which could later become states. The act also gave the potential states popular sovereignty to decide if they were free or slave states.
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On the Senate Floor Brooks would enter and beat Summer so badly that it 3 years to heal.
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This election would be held between Democrat James Buchanan and Republican John C. Fremont. The winner would be James Buchanan, and this would be the first election with a Republican candidate being one of the main candidates.
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Dred Scott was a slave that argued that he was a free man since he lived in a free state. He went to the supreme court because of this, and it led to the supreme court throwing out the Missouri Compromise making it so slaves could not be freed.
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This was a constitution for Kansas being a state, it was pro slavery but was rejected.
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Abraham Lincoln gave his speech to explain how if the government stayed divided it would fall.
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Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephan A. Douglas, the debates were held between them to win the Senate seat. The two argued about popular sovereignty, freeing slaves, and black rights. Douglas would win the senate seat, but it would allow Lincoln to win the presidency.
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Harper's Ferry was a raid led by John Brown; his purpose of the raid was to collect weapons from an armory to arm slaves so they can escape slavery.
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John Brown was an anti-slavery madman that killed people and planned raids to free slaves in a violent manner. He would be executed by soldiers on the second of December after the failed raid and Harper's Ferry.
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In the election of 1860, the two main candidates of the election were Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln would be the winner on his anti-slavery stance.
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On the 20th of December in 1860 slave states would hold a meeting to officially secede from the union since they did not want slaves outlawed.
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Lincoln addressed the nation that was currently divided and would explain what his plans were.