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Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state. A line was split between the two that was supposed to decide who was slave states and who was free.
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New York enacted a law to free all slaves.
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Andrew Jackson (a slave owner) was elected president.
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Nat Turner a Virginia slave led one of the bloodiest rebellions in history.
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A plan to stop the spread of slavery into the territories won from Mexico.
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New political party formed by Northerners that wanted to discuss the issue of slavery.
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California entered as a free state. Mexican Cession territory divided. Ended slave trade in Washington D.C. Made a strict fugitive slave law. Settled border problems between New Mexico and Texas.
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Required citizens to catch runaway slaves.
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Wrote to explain the real horrors of slavery
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Divided Kansas and Nebraska. Decided the slavery issue would be decided by popular sovreignty.
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All the violence in Kansas led John Brown and four of his sons into taking law in their own hands. This led to many killings in a little town called Pottowatomie.
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Dred Scott was a slave that lived in a free state with his owner, when his owner died it went to court because he should not be considered a citizen. Dred Scott lost, the Missouri Compromise was repealed.
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Lincoln and Douglas had a debate because Douglas believed in popular sovereignty. Lincoln believed that slavery should not spread into the territories.
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John Brown led five blacks and thirteen whites on to Harper's Ferry to raid it.
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Lincoln ran against Douglas.
