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Missouri compromise
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Nullification crisis
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Wilmot proviso
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Treaty of Guadalupe holds go ends Mexican American war, Zachary Taylor elected president, free soil party formed
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California and Utah seek admission to the union as free states
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Compromise of 1850, California admitted as a free state, American party formed, Zachary Taylor dies, Millard Fillmore becomes president
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North reacts to fugitive slave law, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s uncle toms cabin published
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Franklin piece elected president
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Ostend manifesto, Kansas Nebraska act, treaties with Indians in northern part of Indian territory renegotiated, Republican Party formed as Whig party dissolves
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William Walker leads his first filibustering expedition to Nicaragua
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Burning and looting of Lawrence Kansas, Josh’s brown leads pottawatomie massacre, attack on senator Charles sumner, James Buchanan elected president
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Dred Scott decision, president buchanan accepts pro slavery lecompton constitution in Kansas, Panic of 1857
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Congress rejects lecompton constitution and Lincoln Douglas debates
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John browns raid on harpers ferry
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Four parties run presidential candidates, Lincoln elected president, South Carolina secedes
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Six other states secede, confederate states of America formed, Lincoln takes office