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Henry Clay asks congress to approve a line that separated northern free states from southern slave states with a "30,36" latitude line.
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Congressman David Wilmot pushed the idea of slavery back into congress. The south has to defend their way of life and the north looks to end the crude practice.
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President Zachary Taylor was elected and he set out to stop the spread of slavery
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Let the states vote on whether they were free or slave states, California became a free state. North not happy about the fugitive slave act.
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Millard Fillmore became president when Zachary Taylor dies due to food poisoning. After Taylor's death the very inexperienced Fillmore approves the compromises of 1850
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There was a law in the compromise that the slaves in the north without legal papers of freedom are to be taken back to their owners in the south. This sometimes made free men kidnapped and put into the life they weren't meant to have.
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A local Massachusetts school teacher goes to the south for a vacation. During the visit she was shocked by how the south treated their slaves and published a book to show her fellow Americans the truth about the practice.
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Candidate Franklin Pierce wins the presidential election and his son dies in a horrible accident on a train. The new president goes into office heartbroken and drunk.
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The Republican party is created by anti-slavery activist.
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Steven Douglas wanted a transcontinental railroad going through Illinois. In agreement the south wanted to have Kansas and Nebraska do popular sovereignty.
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The senator Charles Sumner was a Senator from the north, one day he spoke about the action of a southern Senator and was critical about this slavery acts. Later that week a fellow southerner grabbed a cane and beat Sumner to the ground, no one in the
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The president Buchanan started off poorly because he left all the slavery business to the supreme court, this made Buchanan probably the worst president in history.
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Since Buchanan left slavery laws to the supreme court Dread Scott and all other slaves after him became legalized as Property and may not have the rights as a male at the time.
