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Designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican-American War.
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5 separate bills passed by the U.S. Congress which defused a four-year political confrontation between free and slave states.
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A novel about Anti-Slavery.
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Let the two territories to decide for themselves as a free or slave state within their borders.
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Massacre of Proslavery settlers.
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When Dred Scott was in court to because he was moved to the North while he was a slave then was in court saying that he was not free but he was a slave.
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Speech by Abraham Lincoln to win a seat in the U.S. senate, in the speech accused Douglas of having a "care not" policy on slavery.
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John Brown to start an armed slave revolt.
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Lincoln was elected as the 16th president of the U.S.
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South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the Union.
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Beginning of American Civil War.
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Southern states are established.
