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Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel
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5 separate bills passed in the United States
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An act passed by the United States Congress
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It was an anti-slavery novel created by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe
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10,000 people turned out for a mass meeting
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It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska opening new lands for settlement
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The United States Supreme Court decided that the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the western territories
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It was an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery
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Abraham Lincoln became the president of the United States
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Confederate forces opened fire on the Union
