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Issue was vital to northners who wanted to stop slavery from spreading.
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Congress finally passed five bills based on Clay’s proposals. This series of laws became known as the Compromise of 1850.
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A novel about kindly Uncle Tom, an enslaved man who is abused by the cruel Simon Legree.
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The Kansas- Nebraska Act the slavery question would be forever banished from the halls of Congress.
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U.S. The Supreme Court delivered a shattering blow to antislavery forces.
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Illinois Republicans choose Lincoln to run for the Senate against Douglas.
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Brown and a small band of supporters attacked the town of Harpers Ferry in Virginia.
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Church bells across the North tolled to mourn the man who many considered a hero.
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Election aboutsalvery had left the nation divided. Amercians everywhere felt a sense of crisis.
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The convention passed a declaration that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and the other states, under the name of the United States of Amercian.
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Leaders from the seven seceding states met in Montgomery.
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The dark night was suddenly lit up by Confederate shells fired from the mainland. Within a few hours, the fort’s wooden barracks had caught fire and portions of the fort had crumbled.