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Wilmot Proviso, 1846, amendment to a bill put before the U.S. House of Representatives during the Mexican War; it provided an appropriation of $2 million to venable Polk to negotiate a territory with Mexico
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Five separate bills passed by Congress regarding slave and free states
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Part of the compromise of 1850 between slaveholding states in northern states concerning runaway slaves
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Written by Harriet Beecher stowe is an anti slave novel
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Allowed people in Kansas'and Nebraska's territory to decide for themselves if they allow slavery in their state
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Series of violent political confrontations involving anti-and pro slavery
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States
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Series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephan Douglas
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The Battle of Harpers Ferry was fought September 12–15, 1862, as part of the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln won presidency
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army that started the American Civil War.
