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William Sewward states that a compromise on slavery is wrong because all men are free and created equal
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Black and white abolitionists free fugitive slave Jerry McHenry from Syracuse, New York jail and allow him to escape to Canada.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe purdursed Uncle Toms Cabin.
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William Walker and a few dozen men briefly take over Baja California in an effort to expand slave territory.
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Know Nothing party sweeps states and local election and demands ethnic purification.
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Misssouri attempts to influenece the election and begins the Bloody Kansas period.
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Massachusetts senator delivers speech attacking slavery supporters in the Senate.
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The tariff of 1857 lowers rates which is not liked in the North and praised in the South.
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Minnesota becomes the 32nd state and enters as a free state.
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John Brown and two of his black band members were hung by Robert Lee after attacking Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president and remained president for the Civil War.
