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Its the regulaion of slavery in the newly formed western states
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Five bills passed in the United States. Texas surrendered it's claim to New Mexico. California is split at parallel 35 degrees North
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Declared that all run away slaves should be returned to their masters. This caused a problem for free blacks because slave masters did poor discriptions and would basically describe all blacks.
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Was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe against slavery to show people what would happen to slaves on farms and going through the slave trade
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Stephen Douglas wanted to build a transcontinental railroad through the new states, but the northerners saw it as them trying to force slavery down their throat.
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The slave Dred Scott goes against court for his freedom when his master dies and he is given to his masters nephew who in fact lives in a free state
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The election of Abraham Lincoln is what sparks the civil war when the south secceeds because the president wants to make slavery illegal.
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