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A short lived 3rd party.
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The government works for the people and we decide what type.
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5 seperate bills the US Congress passed to defuse a political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territorries aquired during the Mexican-American war.
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Became the 31st state after a heated debate with congress over slavery.
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Federal laws that allowed people to capture and return runaway slaves back to their owners. Even ones who have been free for years.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, an american author publishes an anti-slavery novel.
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A network of secret routes and safe houses usedc to help runaway slaves get to free land.
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People in these territories could decide weather or not they wanted slavery within its borders.
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A new political party is born.
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Representative Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner after he gave an impassioned anti-slavery speech.
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A supreme court case that said he wasn't considered a person, but property, and couldn't be free if residing in a free state.
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A series of debates regarding slavery in the territories.
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The fort was bombarded and they surrendered.
