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admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
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¨ Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South¨
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this act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
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Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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this act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.
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¨the murder of five men from a proslavery settlement on Pottawatomie Creek, Franklin county, Kan., U.S¨
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argument to whether the Congress had no power to forbid or abolish slavery in the territories.
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series of 7 debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the U.S , Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate
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where John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. This was an attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery.
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demonstrated the divisions within the United States just before the Civil War.