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The Compromise of 1850 is about a series of 5 laws passed to keep both the North and South peaceful over slavery -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed the Missouri Compromise, which had banned any and all slavery north of the 36 degree 30 latitude line -
A period of violent, undeclared civil war in Kansas territory, sparked by the Kansas-Nebraska Act -
Preston Booker, Representative of South Carolina violently assaulted Senator Charles Summer of Massachusetts on the Senate floor with his cane because of a speech about anti-slavery -
Supreme Court decision rules that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not citizens and has no right to sue in federal court -
the debates were on the issues of slavery and its expansion -
A failed attempt to incite a massive slave rebellion that ultimately intensified sectional tensions -
it was seen as the immediate cause of the American Civil War