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Missouri admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Created a geographical line to separate the north and the south (slave and free states).
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Senator Stephen A. Douglas (Illinois) decided that congress would vote on these 5 proposals separately and this would end the argument once and for all.
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Required all citizens to help catch runaways, whether in the south or the north. Anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be fined or imprisoned.
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Repealed the Missouri compromise and allowed settlers of these regions to vote (popular sovereignty) on whether or not to allow slavery in their states.
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The government should ban slavery from new territories. Further divided the north (mainly Republican) and the south (mainly Democrat.)
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Slave Dred Scott sued the U.S. government for freedom. Supreme court rejects Scott's proposal, causing strong reactions from the public- and divinding the country even more.
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Lincoln vs. Douglas. Lincoln gains national reputation.
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Abolitionist John Brown led 18 men to raid an arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA to sart a rebellion against slave holders.
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