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An effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states.
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A major slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia.
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suggested that states residing within the Union have the unilateral, inherent (natural, undocumented) right to void any law created by the federal government that could be deemed unconstitutional
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A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
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This act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
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An anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe
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A series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
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The Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court.
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Affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, thereby-negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party.
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Debated the slavery extension issue in 1858,
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John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South
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The South thought Lincoln would end slavery
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Southern states' desire to preserve the institution of slavery.
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The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North and the South. The Civil War began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people.