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a The Mexican- American War was a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim). -
Was an assemblage of bills passed late in 1850, which managed to keep the promises of the Missouri Compromise alive. Strengthen the Fugitive slave act
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The fugitive slave law that empowered the federal government to deputize regular citizens in arresting runaways.
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An example of Antislavery literature is Uncle Toms Cabin. Starts to show the true colors of slavery to Southerners.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.
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Kansas was the first place to demonstrate that the sectional crisis could easily be, and in fact already was, exploding into a full-blown national crisis. As the national mood grew increasingly grim, Kansas attracted militants representing the extreme sides of the slavery debate. -
on May 20, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was violently beaten with a cane by Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina on the floor of the Senate chamber. -
In June 1856, the newly named Republican Party held its nominating convention at Philadelphia and selected Californian John Charles Fremont. Fremont's antislavery credentials may not have pleased many abolitionists
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was a document framed in Lecompton, the Territorial Capital of Kansas, in 1856 by Southern pro-slavery advocates of Kansas statehood.
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Ruled that Black Americans could not be citizens of the United States. This gave the Buchanan administration and its southern allies a direct repudiation of the Missouri Compromise.
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Showed the people of the south on why they needed slavery.
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The Illinois Senate race in 1858 put the scope of the sectional crisis on full display. Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln challenged the greatly influential Democrat Stephen Douglas. Pandering to appeals to white supremacy, Douglas hammered the Republican opposition as a “Black Republican” party bent on racial equality
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Brown hatched a plan to attack Harper’s Ferry, a federal weapons arsenal in Virginia (now West Virginia). He would use the weapons to lead a revolt of enslaved people. Brown approached Frederick Douglass, though Douglass refused to join. Brown’s raid embarked on October 16. By October 18, a command under Robert E. Lee had crushed the revolt. Many of Brown’s men, including his own sons, were killed, but Brown himself lived and was imprisoned. -
The Election of 1860 demonstrated the divisions within the United States just before the Civil War. Abe was elected as president(16).