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California wanted to become a free state. The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and slave trade in Washington was abolished. California entered the Union as a free state.
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Uncle Tom´s Cabin was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was about slavery.
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This event established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
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Brooks did not like Summer´s speach so he went to him and beat him with his cane till it broke.
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Dred Scott sued his owner because his wife had lived in a free state and he believed they should be free. The court ruled that slaves had no rights.
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John Brown and 21 other men went to go attack a federal arsenal in hopes of giving the weapons to slaves to rebel, but instead half his men were killed then he was ordered to be hanged.
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It was an electoin based on the problem dealing with the expansion of slavery. Lincoln won the election.
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John Brown Blieved that God wanted him to end slavery so he kidnapped and killed 5 men. The area of kansas where this occoured became Bleeding Kansas.
