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the admission of California as a free state, the strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Law; popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico concerning the question of slavery; the abolition of the slave trade in D.C.; and the federal assumption of Texas's debt.
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The Act was strengthened at the insistence of the slave states of the South by the Compromise of 1850, which required even the governments and residents of free states to enforce the capture and return of fugitive slaves.
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It 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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The series of seven debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois state election campaign.
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The Democratic party splits over the issue of slavery
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army that started the American Civil War.
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Lee invades the North, within the first three hours, 12,000 soldiers killed. The battle was a draw
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The Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to the slaves in the Confederate States
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The "turning point" in the war
