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follow laws taxon, cotton succeed or loave. -
People who wanted to end slavery. -
Senator Douglas, the author of the Compromise of 1850, introduced another piece of legislation “to organize the Territory of Nebraska -
Kansas was a radical abolitionist and religious zealot named John Brown, who had worked as a conductor on the Underground Railroad and founded an organization that helped slaves escape to Canada. -
Abraham Lincoln had served a single term in Congress, emerged in the mid-1850s as an articulate and persuasive critic of slavery, and achieved national prominence with a series of debates against Senator Stephen Douglas -
rebuilding the South and bringing the Southern state back into the union. -
while new governments were being formed across the South, freemen, as former slaves were called, testing the meaning of freedom. -
As new state government took power in the South, Steven and others in Congress were alarmed to see that they were headed by the same people who had led the South before the war wealthy white planters. -
the black code by declaring freemen to be full citizens with the same right as white. -
the new congress passed its own