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Being the first act to increase tensions, the comprimise of 1850 came to establish the following ordinances;
Texas is to surrender all claims to newly claimed New Mexican lands, as well as all claims north of the missoury comprimise line.
Califonia is addmitted as a Free State, with its current boundries
The Wimont Proviso was denied, an act that would have ceased the growth of the slave trade / slavery
The slave trade, yet not slavery as a whole came to be banned within the Capitol
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A Political novel relesed on the 20th of March 1852, Uncle Tom's cabin came to spread the truth of slavery, nation wide, angering southeners, yet vastly increasing abolitionist support, increasing the divide within the nation
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An approximatly 7 year long event, the occurances of Bleeding Kansas consisted of the political confrontation between pro and anti - slavery activists, bringing the question of slavery to the whole of the nation, the notion of violence occoring over politics forshadowing events to come...
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As a whole, the Dred Scott desision was the judical event in which the rights of a free black man came to be decided, a confrotation leading to the determination that any man of imported (slave) decent was not to be a legal american citizen... Confilict arose once more.
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As debates over a seat within the senate, the Lincoln - Douglas debates came to surround the question of slavery, the debates often education many a citizen of thesituation at hand, both bringing knowlege, as well as opinion on the topic to the public...
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An assult on the National Armory in hopes of igniting the Slave Rebellion, the raid on harpers ferry, lead by John Brown, came to quickly degrade into chaos, the attckers pushed back until their eventual death or capture the following day. Such an event bringing large national attention to the lengths which radicalists may go for their respective causes.
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The Election of 1860, often named the "last straw for the south", quite simply involved the election of Abraham Lincoln, greatly despised by the south, subsequently leading to their eventual secession from a nation they felt no longer a part of... The Civil war was imminent.
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