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It was federal laws in the United States that required the return of escaped enslaved people to their owners. -
It was a series of five laws passed to ease tensions between the North and South over slavery.
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It was a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, at Corinthian Hall in Rochester.
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It is an anti-slavery novel. -
It repealed the Missouri Compromise, creating the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and allowing their residents to decide whether to permit slavery. -
It was a period of violent civil confrontations in the Kansas Territory between 1854 and 1859 over the issue of whether Kansas would be a free or slave state.
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the court ruled that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court. -
It was an attempt by the abolitionist to incite a slave rebellion by seizing the federal armory at Harpers Ferry Virginia. Brown.
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SC seceded because they thought that Abraham lincoln was a threat to slavery.
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He was first elected President in 1860 and re-elected in 1864. -
It was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States from 1861 to 1865. -
It was the opening engagement of the American Civil War. Confederate forces bombarded the Union-held fort in Charleston Harbor after the Union garrison refused to surrender.