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The Missouri Compromise made anything above the Missouri Compromise Line free territory. It also made Maine a free state and Missouri a slave state.
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On August 8th the Wilmot Proviso Bill was first introduced to the house, it later passed in the house but failed in the senate.
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California requested to be annexed into the US as a free state, but in the Compromise of 1850 it stated that California was to be made a free state and the other mexican territories could eventually be slave states.
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The Fugitive Slave Law forced the northerners to catch and return any slaves that escaped from the south.
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Uncle Toms Cabin was a book that captured the reality of slave life, the challanges slaves faced and the fears they struggled with.
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The Ostend Manifesto was a document written in 1854 that described the reason for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while hinting that the U.S. would declare war if Spain refused.
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The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands for settlers, and repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine by voting whether they would allow slavery within each territory.
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Charles Sumner was beaten two days after his speach "The Crime Against Kansas" for being to confrontational on the issues of slavery. Preston Brooks was the man who beat him, he broke his cane while beating Sumner.
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The raid on Lawrence, Kansas was when proslavery settlers and "border ruffians" invaded Lawrence, Kansas. They burned hotel, looted several homes, and tossed the press of two abolitionist newspapers into the Kaw River.
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The Pottawatomie Massacre occurred during the night of May 24, 1856. During this he and the other invaders killed 5 men.
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The Dred Scott Decision was a ruling by the Supreme Court that African Americans held as slaves were not protected by the Constitution and were not considered to be U.S. citizens.
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The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen Douglas. Both were running for president, Lincoln for Republican and Douglas for Democratic.
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The Raid On Harpers Ferry by John Brown was a very unsuccessful raid designed to spark a slave revolt and eventually end slavery.
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On the 20th of December, 1860, South Carolina voted to secede from the United States. Soon following in secession was 10 more states.
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Lincoln was inaugurated president in 1861, beating Stephen Douglas, who was running for the position of president for the democratic party.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the attack and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, and it started the Civil War.
