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5 bills passed by the us congress that diffused 4 year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding territories obtained by the Mexican american war.
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the book moby dick was published on October.
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changed how americans viewed slavery.
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region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
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Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern" elements in Kansas
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election of 1856 was an unusually heated election campaign that led to the election of James Buchanan, the ambassador to the United Kingdom
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the Dred Scott case, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law
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oregon becomes a state
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an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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During the Kansas campaign, He and his supporters killed five pro-slavery supporters in the Pottawatomi
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Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.