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A debate where slavery was allowed, they decided Missouri is a slave state and Maine entered as a free state.
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Plan presented by David Wilmot, stopped the spread of slavery
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New political party formed in Buffalo, New York
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California enters as a free state, Mexican cession divided, ended slave trade in Washington D.C. Made a strict fugitive slave law, settled border problems.
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Novel written by Harriett Beecher Stowe.
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Divides lands into Kansas and Nebraska territories
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John Brown and his four sons kill four pro-slavery men out of their beds and kill them.
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He was a free slave but his owner died in the slave states but could not sue due to the fact he was property not a citizen.
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Douglass believed in deciding slavery by popular sovereignty.
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Planned to raid an arsenal and start a slave revolt, a number of his men died.
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Lincoln ran against Douglass in the Election of 1860
