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The Missouri Compromise was to make Maine a slave state and a free state so that there was an even amount on both sides free or not free.
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The Wilmot Proviso proposed an american law to ban slavery in territory acquired from mexico in the Mexican war. Conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the american Civil War.
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The Fugitive Slave Law was passed by Congress as part of the Compromise of 1850 between the Southern slave interest and Northern Free Soil movement. It was a series of laws meant to solve the controversy over slavery.
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The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. it was also a novel that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote back and 1850 but published in 1852.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854 undid previous legislation that limited the expansion of slavery, such as the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850.
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Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393, also known as the Dred Scott case, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law.
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Lincoln-Douglas debates, series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A.
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On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
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United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckenridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.
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Secession as revolution, an early theme in southern rhetoric, was not emphasized after the formation of the Confederacy.
