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A bill of compromises that defused a political confrontation between the free and the slave states. -
Was an abolitionist and publicised her best-selling book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book highlighted the evils of the South and slavery. This angered the slaveholding South. -
After the creation of Kansas, there was a series of violent civil confrontations in the new Kansas territory because people didn't like the changes -
The Know-Nothings are the United States' first anti-immigration party and launched a Nativist movement -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise and created two new territories. -
U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom. -
Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in the fall of 1858 as they contested for a seat in the U.S. Senate -
U.S. Millitary arsenal at Harpers Ferry was the target of an assault by abolitionist led by John Brown -
Abraham Lincoln wins the election of 1860 over 3 other condidates -
South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union