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admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time -
Turner and his followers killed everyone in his masters house and killed 55 more -
an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. -
between the United States and Mexico over of Texas ended at the Nueces River or the Rio Grande -
fortune seekers in California that began after gold was found at Sutter's Mill in early 1848 and reached its peak in 1852. -
During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. -
passed by the U.S. Congress to settle several issues connected to slavery and avert the threat of dissolution of the Union -
required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state -
it is a story about Uncle Tom a person who is enslaved and dispite this he keeps to his beliefs -
repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular vote -
a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, -
upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. -
Douglas tried to brand Lincoln as a dangerous radical, while Lincoln emphasized the immorality of slavery. -
to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia -
Abraham Lincoln won the Election of 1860 -
South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union