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It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.
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Mexican War heightened the slavery debate
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was a package of five separate bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North
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was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
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stipulated that the issue of slavery would be decided by the residents of each territory, a concept known as popular sovereignty.
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was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery Border Ruffian elements
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Southern Congressman Preston Brooks savagely beats Northern Senator Charles Sumner in the halls of Congress as tensions rise over the expansion of slavery.
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He argued that his master, John Emerson, escorted him onto free soil in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory, and thus had legally—even if inadvertently—granted him freedom.
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Brown had hopes that the local slave population would join the raid and through the raid’s success weapons would be supplied to slaves and freedom fighters throughout the country
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Southerners were outraged over a plot by abolitionist John Brown to start a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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was a site of major political and military importance for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. The white population of the state strongly supported the institution of slavery long before the war.
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was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War.
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is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War.
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is the date most Americans identify as the day the Emancipation Proclamation officially took effect, the ideals of the Proclamation had been carefully contemplated by President Lincoln many months before.
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The Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to the slaves in the Confederate States if the States did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863
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in and around the town ofGettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
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The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 15 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21.
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fought on the morning before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War.