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The Fugitive Slave Act, which was created to prevent and help capture runaway slaves, was passed. -
President Millard Fillmore selects the new Senate chamber to be located in Washington D.C. -
Harriet Beetcher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin, and it begins to influence people on anti-slavery laws. -
The United States adds present-day southern New Mexico and Arizona to their territory. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act is signed, repealing the Missouri Compromise and allowing for slavery to continue in the Louisiana Territory. It also created Nebraska and Kansas. -
A series of wars in Kansas against pro and anti-slavery movements. In the end, the anti-slavery people are victorious. -
The Sacking of Lawrence is when settlers from Massachusetts traveled to Lawrence, Kansas, and ransacked the city and attacked the mayor in hopes of making Kansas a free state. -
The Panic of 1857 was an economic recession, which paniced a lot of people and further increased tensions between the North and South of the united states. -
Minnesota becomes the 32nd U.S. state and is designated as a free state. -
John Brown leads a team of anti-slavery protesters into Harpers Ferry, Virginia, a government armory, and raids the area to help promote anti-slavery. -
Abraham Lincoln becomes the president-elect of the United States and is set to become the 16th president on January 20, 1861. This causes outrage in the south and begins to form the Confederate and Union states of America.