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Compromise between north slave free and southern slave holding states. This was comtroversial especially because many slaves attempted to escape to the north. This act said that escaped slaves had to be returned.
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Divisions in the American-Mexican War over slavery increased and popular soverignty would determine if there would be slavery in Utah and New Mexico. Also Washington D.C became slave free.
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Anti-slavery novel by the author Harriet Beecher Stowe who "helped to lay the ground work for the civil war". This booked was influential because it gave americans insight onto the harsh reality of slavery.
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This act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. This opened new land for settlement and white male settlers voted by popular soverignty.
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Pro-slavery Brooks attacked anti-slavery Senator Sumner on the floor of the senate. The violence of the attack foreshadowed a civil war to come.
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In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania it was decided that the parties first nominating convention would be the republican party. Many southern states followed this party after it was created.
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The supreme court decision that free or slaved, african americans could not be American citizens and didnt have the right to sue in federeal court.
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Brown and his men captured citizens and seized the federal arsenal and armory. The weapons would be supplied to slaves for the fight for freedom. John Brown was caught and excecuted.
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Served immediately as at the outbreak of the American Civil War.Abraham Lincoln won with almost no support from the south.
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South Carolina demanded that the US army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor. Seven southern states succeded and this was first site where the shots which began the Civil War were.
