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All escaped slaves to the North must be returned to the masters. Anyone caught harboring slaves will be arrested.
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California was admitted as afree state. However, there were stronger fugitive slave laws.
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Secret network of volunteers hide fugitive slaves to push them up north for safety
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A fiction book written by the white women Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was written to show the horros of slavery
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Turned the Nebraska territory into Kansas and Nebraska. White males would be able to vote whethter they wanted slavery or not
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Dred Scott v Sandford was a court case that decided slaves were property and could not be U.S. citizens
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John Brown, a white man from the north, and a few slaves raided harpers ferry for weapons and killed pro-slavery activists.
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John Brown was hanged for treason and became a martyr in the north and a villian in the south.
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South states secedded from the union strating December 20. Due to lincolns election
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president, beating Stephen A. Douglass
