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Wilmont Proviso
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Nation Breaking Apart
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Comproise of 1850
A set of laws that intended to settle slave states and free states . -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
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Bleeding Kansas
People were mostly proslaverly settlers than antislavery settlers. Proslavery people didnt want to lose the election so people voted illegally. -
Caning of Sumner
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
Supreme court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to live in territories where slavery was illegal; the court ruled against it. -
Attack on Harpers Ferry
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Election of 1860
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Secession