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Made Maine a free state/ Mississippi a slave state. And said that no slavery above 36'30' line.
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A protective act.
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The Know Nothing Party was a movement by the nativist American political factions of the 1850s.
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One of the major events leading to the American Civil War.
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The Free Soil Party was a short lived political party in the United States active in 1848 and 1852.
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It was five bills that were passed in September 1850.
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Mandated that states to which escaped slaves fled were obligated to return them to there masters upon there discovery.
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Repealed the Missouri Compromise allowing slavery in the territory north of 36'30' latitude.
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The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary politicals parties in the United States along with the Democratic Party.
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It helped start up the Guerrila War.
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One of the most violent episodes in congressional history took place in this chamber on May 22, 1856.
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The United States presidential election of 1856 was an unusually heated contest that led to the election of James Buchanan the US ambassador to the United Kingdom.
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In March of 1857, Scott lost the decision as seven out of eight Justices on the Supreme Court declared no slave or descendent of a sleve could be a US citizen.
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A series of seven debates between Lincoln and senator Douglas.
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An African American who fled slavery and then Guided them to the North so they would get more freedom.