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The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States. It was used by slaves to escape into free states and Canada
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This was the period where books became released over the pros of slavery or abolitionists, A common piece known as Uncle Tom's Cabin is written by Hairnet Beecher Stowe and talks about the attitudes of and towards slavery.
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This was a war caused by the United States wanting to annex Texas from Mexico, after two long years the United States ultimately won.
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The compromise of 1850 admitted California to the United States as a “free” state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves. Part of the Compromise included the Fugitive Slave Act and the abolishing of slavery in Washington D.C. -
Fugitive Slave Acts, in U.S. history provided for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a federal territory. -
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This was the founding of the Republican Party which was the merging of Free Soil Party Liberty Party Anti-Nebraska movement North American Party. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty -
the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854
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Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts. -
Legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court , ruled that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States. -
The Panic of 1857 was a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy. -
A document framed in Lecompton, the Territorial Capital of Kansas, in 1857 by Southern pro-slavery advocates of Kansas statehood. (it never went into effect) and this was the second out of four proposed constitutions. -
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. It has been called the dress rehearsal for, or Tragic Prelude to, the Civil War. -
Abraham Lincoln and John C. Breckinridge were the top two candidates, overall, Abraham Lincoln won, 180-72 electoral vote, and 1,865,908-848,019 Popular Vote -
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate