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The comprimise of 1850 was a package of five seperate bills passed by the United States congress which defused a four-year politician confrontation between slave and free states.
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A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that exposed slavery and how bad they were being treated in the Southern states. She sold over 2 million copies within a decade. It got anti-slavery activists very angry and they started to riot
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On this day in 1857, the United States supreme court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case affirming the right of slave oweners to take their slaves into the Western territories.
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Stephen Douglas introduced a bill and it passed. The election was held on Tuesday November 6th, 1860. Douglas won Senetor but Lincoln ran for president later and won.
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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by white abolishnist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
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In the Election of 1860 elected President Abe Lincoln Republican. The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadenial presidental election. Abe won.
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South Carolina secedes from the Union.
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Mississippi secedes from the Union.
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Florida secedes from the Union.
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Alabama secedes from the Union.
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Georgia secedes from the Union.
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Louisiana secedes from the Union.
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Texas secedes from the Union.
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Confederate states of America are formed.
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Bleeding Kansas or bloody Kansas was a seriews of violent political confrontations in the United States invlolving anti-slavery Free Staters and pro-slavery in Kansas between 1854 and 1861.
