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The act allowed for the recovery of runaways slaves and authorized the arrest or seizure of fugitives.
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Designed to elminate slavery within the land. As a result of the Mexican War this was called Wilmot Proviso.
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Congress reviewed the fugitive slave act and there were threats of Southern Secession withdrawl a state from the union.
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Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland. She reportedly returned to the South 19 times and brought out more than 300 slaves
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Henry Clay had a compromise northerners and southerners, the fugitive slave act was amended and the slave trade in Washington D.C. was abolished.
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An anti-slave novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe called Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act passes Congress and thus overturns the Missouri Compromise opening the Northern territory to slavery
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A series of violent political confrontations about the fugitive slave laws. Sac of St. Lawrence was an event where 800 men went to destroy the town of Lawerence.
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Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner for a speech he gave, the beating almost killed him.
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The affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into Western territories.
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John Brown started an arm revolt by seizng Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected President.
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South Carolina succeeds from Union as well as Mississippi, Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
