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1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
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Warns European nations that the United States would not rate further colonization or puppet monarchs
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John Quincy Adams defeated Andrew Jackson in 1824 by garnering more electoral votes. -
Enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States
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Nat enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people on August 21 , 1831. His actions set off a massacre of up to 200 African Americans and a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education , movement and assembly.
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Conducted by the Census Office on June 1 1840 , it determined the resident population of the United States to increase by 32.7 percent
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America was ceded western territories. To deal with this , congress passed the Compromise which basically made California free and allowed the people in Utah and New Mexico to choose for themselves
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the fugitive slave act was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850. This was the most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 and caused many North American 19th century Black activists to increase their efforts against enslavement.
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Five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion
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Beecher Stowe an activist who wrote the book to show the evils of enslavement. The book became a best seller and had a huge impact on the way that Northerners viewed enslavement.
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The election of 1860 demonstrated the divisions within the United States just before the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln became president
