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This compromise was the act that stated any state North of 36º 30º
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This prohibited land gained from Mexico from having slaves but it did not pass.
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California became a free state as well as New Mexico and Washington D.C. would not allow trading or selling slaves.
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Mandated the return of runaway slaves.
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The case went all the way to the Supreme Court and Dred Scott was still named a slave.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book, which stunned people with her description of slavery.
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The act that repealed the Missouri compromise.
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A fight against anti-slavery people versus pro-slavery people.
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A series of debates against Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln who were both against slavery.
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John Brown leed a raid to Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
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Lincoln won the presidency.
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South Carolina was the first state to secede.