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-California enters Union as free state
-Fugitive Slave Act passes
-The selling of slaves, but not slavery itself, was banned in Washington, D.C.
-Texas gave up lands in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Wyoming to the federal government in exchange for money
-Utah and New Mexico territoires were given the right to popular sovereignty. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin as a response to the pro-slavery movement
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-repealed the Missouri Compromise
-formed Kansas and Nebraska terrtores
-applied the concept of popular soverignty. This allowed the states to vote on whether or not slavery was legal. -
As revenge for burning Lawrence to the ground, an abolitionist gang led by John Brown killed five border ruffians at the Pottawatomie Massacre
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The Supreme Court rules in Scott v. Sandford that blacks are not U.S. citizens, and slaveholders have the right to take existing slaves into free areas of the county.
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Minnesota enters the Union as a free state, 32rd
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Oregon enters the Union as a free state, 33rd
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John Brown attacks Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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John Brown was hung as a results from not only the attack at Harper Ferry, but the Pottawatome Massacre. He and two other black members of his band were hung.
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Abraham Lincoln beats John C, Breckinridge and becomes 16th President
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When it became clear that Abraham Lincoln would be the next president, South Carolina became the first state to declare its secession from the Union
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South Carolina's Fort Sumter is fired upon by the Confederates