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Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas make the compromise which states that there will be no further expansion of slavery, and made the fugitive slave act telling northerners to capture and return slave to the soutch
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The world's first fair opens in London
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Harriet Beecher Stowe makes this book about slave life.
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It opened thousands of new farms and made a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad. It led to Bleeding Kansas.
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Matthew Perry led his four ships to Tokyo to establish trade in Japan.
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Pro slavery groups attack antislavery stronghold of Lawrence Kansas.
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Uprising against British rule in India begins with Sepoy rebellion.
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John Brown Seizes the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
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Russian serfs are emancipated from Russian Empire.
