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Submitted by Henry Clay, involving the regulation of slavery in the western territories
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Promised to purify American Politics by limiting or ending the influence of Irish Catholics and other immigrants, thus reflecting nativist and anti-catholic settlement.
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Would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican war.
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Peace treaty signed by Americans and Mexico that ended the Mexican- american war.
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Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico about war. California was a free state. Outlawed slavery in the new territories. Created the fugitive slave act. Slave trade was banned in Washington DC.
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Required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to return to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate.
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Anti-slavery novel by American author, Harriet Beecher Stowe. It helped lay the groundwork for the civil war.
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Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new land for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri compromise
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A purchase by the United States of 29640 square miles of present day Arizona and Southwestern New Mexico.
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Series of violent political confrontation in the US involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery, that took place in the Kansas territory and the neighboring towns of Missouri.
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The whig party was incapable of coping with national crisis, they met to form a new party in the north.
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Presidential election in which James Buchanan won presedency.
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A landmark decision by the US Supreme Court in which the court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court.
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Series of political debates between Abraham lincoln and Steven A.Douglas in a campaign for one of Illinois' two US senate seats.
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Sent a raid out to Harpers Ferry, so the slaves can find weapons and revolt to ultimately slow down/ stop slavery
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The presidential election that gave the power of presidency to Abraham Lincoln.
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When the southern states threatened to leave the union.
