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Pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country.
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It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state.
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The Mexican War was the first US armed fight faught on forgine soil.
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Acted as a law allowing the capture and return of run away slaves.
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allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery
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Massachusetts was an avowed Abolitionist and leader of the Republican Party. After the sack of Lawrence, on May 21, 1856, he gave a bitter speech in the Senate called "THE CRIME AGAINST KANSAS."
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Made it where African Americans couldnt be citizens.
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Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia
