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Uncle Tom's Cabin a book criticizing slavery is authored by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Republican Party is formed by anti-slavery activists
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Act drafted by Stephen Douglass that added Kansas and Nebraska to the union.
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The election between James Buchanan and John C. Frémont.
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Charles Sumner is assaulted by Preston Brooks with a walking stick in the middle of the senate floor.
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The supreme court rules that Dred Scott is not a free man for entering a free state.
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Abraham Lincoln delivers his speech about the division within the united states between the north and south.
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A series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.
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John Brown raids Harpers's Ferry in an attempt to cause a slave revolt.
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John Brown is executed on charges of treason, murder, and insurrection
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Abraham Lincoln, John Breckenridge, John Bell, and Stephen Douglass run for president.
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The first inagural address by Lincoln
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South Carolina leves the union.