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It prohibited slavery and doubled the size of the United States.
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It was a four year confrontation between the Slave States of the South and the free states of the North during the Mexican American War.
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This act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
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Preson Brookes beat Sumner almost to death for talking about his coudin.
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John Brown led 20 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia to instigate a major slave operation.
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This is where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.