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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 compelled all citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves and denied enslaved people the right to a jury trial.
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The act Stowed abolitionist family and the Fugitive Slave Act, which forced Northerners to return escaped slaves.
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The act has been considered symbolic of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse" and willingness to resort to violence that eventually led to the Civil War.
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Brown and his sons attacked three cabins along Pottawatomie Creek. They killed five men with broad swords and triggered a summer of guerrilla warfare in the troubled territory.
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The act outraged abolitionists, who saw the Supreme Court's ruling as a way to stop debate about slavery in the territories
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When the Kansas- Nebraska act passed Kansas was allowed to determining whether they would enter the union as a free or slave . The lecompton Constitution was created allowing for kansas to be a slave state. pro slavery people supported by president James Buchanan attempted to push the constitution through the US It was set back to kansas for a vote, vote rejected it
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John Brown radical abolitionist who had been involved in anti- slavery violence in kansas, on october 16. He led a group of seventeen including 5 black members to go raid the arsenal located in harpers goal. His goal was to start a slave up rising. Brown and his men were surrounded and eventually killed or captured by troops which washed by colonel Robert E. Lee.
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Was an unrecognized state set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S.
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When Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery, was elected president, the South Carolina legislature perceived a threat. Calling a state convention, the delegates voted to remove the state of South Carolina from the union known as the United States of America.