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Submitted by Henry Clay, was passed between the pro-salvery andanti-slavery factions in the United States Congress.
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The Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent were free or a slave.
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The issue of slavery in territory gained in the Mexican-American war 1846-48.
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The law was made for escaped slaves to return to their owners, and for the people who helped them escape to go to jail.
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An anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War" according to Will Kaufman.
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The party was born to end slavery.
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Created territories of Kanas and Nebraska for new land and settlement.
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John Brown and his other followers seized the United States army and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
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The Democrats met in South Carolina to select their candidate for president in the election.
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General P.G.T. Beauregard was in commnad for the Confedrate focres at Charleston Harbor.
