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Proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the united states.
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Fugitive slave act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
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Is anti-slavery novel. The novel had a profound effect on attitudes.
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery.
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They killed five pro-slavery settlers north of Pottawatomie.
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lincoln said I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
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Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt.
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He became a leader in the new Republican party and gained national attention in 1858 for debating.
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South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the united states.
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Was a collection of 11 states that seceded from the united states.
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The American civil war begins when Confederates fire on Fort Sumter.
