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Gold discovered in California quickly get 60,000 people, apply for statehood.
The Missouri Compromise. Line stops at Calif.
Should Calif. be a free/slave state? -
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Wanted a Northern Rail Road route but needed Southern Support.
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Fights break out as people vote for slave or free. Northerners and Southerners sneak into Kansas to cheat and vote.
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N. senator spoke poorly of a S. Senator, (Butler) while arguing against the expansion of slavery.
Butlers cousin (brooks) beat sumner on senate floor -
Slaves are property, so they have no right to sue. Chief Jus. Roger Taney
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He raided Harper's Farry, because he wanted to abolish slavery.
