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Drew a line of slavery/no slavery at the 36 degrees 30' line and the Ohio river.
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Said all land gained from Mexican war can be open to slavery.
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California applies for statehood as a free state.
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Law that stated runaway slaves in north must be given back to south. The north did not comply or enforce this.
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Harriot Beecher Stowe wrote this to inspire slavery- opposing anger.
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A message that was leaked to the public saying the U.S. would seize Cuba if not sold to them, and north saw it as a slavery territorie soon-to-be.
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Said that in Kansas, Nebraska, and any new state would decide slave/free on popular soverighnty.
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Preston Brookes beat Charles Sumner on the senate floor with a cane.
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Pro-slavery activists attacked Abolitionists in the town of Lawrence.
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John Brown retaliated against the attck on Lawrence with an attack on the small river town of Pottawatomie, Kansas.
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The decision saying that a free slave could never be a U.S. citizen.
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Lincoln v.s. Douglas on the constitutionalism of slavery.
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Lincoln elected by 40%, rest of votes spread between different southern canidates.
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South Carolina declares it's independence from the Union.
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South Carolina shells a fort without any killing.
