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This federal law allowed capturing slaves and returning them within the territory of the United States. All states must forbid slavery.
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Effort by congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries by the request of Missouri for admission as a state which slavery would be premited
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A democratic named Wilmot added an amendment to a military appropiations bill that proposed "neither slavery not involuntary servitude shall never exist".
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A convention held bye California to forbade slavery. They wanted to be apart of the fugitive slave law.
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Senator Clay introduced a series of resolutions in attempt to end the crisis between North and South.
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A book written by Harriet beecher Stowe. About the process of trading slaves
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Settlers wanted to move to Nebraska, but that could not because Nebraska had to hold a claim on their land.
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Series of violent political confrontations in the U.S. Involving pro and anti -slavery. On May 21st ruffians looted the town in repsonse, John Brown orchestrated the murder several days later.
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On this day, a member from the House Of Representatives entered the Senete chamber and beat a senator uncouncious.
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The supreme court issues a decision in the dred Scott case assuming the right for slave owners to take there slave western territories
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John Brown started a raid with 21 men to defeat the U.S. Marines. Brown asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas to go with him but Tubman was ill.
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The 19th held presidential election served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American civil war
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Secession convention meeting in Charleson devoted ordinace dissolving the connection between South Carolina and United States.
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Conducter of the underground rail road. She went against the Fugitive Slave Act.