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aw enacted as a part of the Compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage
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The compromise of 1850 was a series of conretional measures intended to settle disagreements between slave states and free states.
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harriet breecher created a novel called uncle toms cabin the bistowed the hardships of slavery and she was given the name "the little lady that started the big war"
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whig party splits into two parts north and south,south whigs are pro slavery and northerns oppose the fugitive slave act
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The Kansas Nebraska act established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and gave the people the right to vote for if they wanted the state as a slave state or as a free state.
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Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent events that involved anti- slavery, free staters, and pro slavery.
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a band of followers seized a federal arsenal at harpers ferry ina attepmt to arm slaves.southers came to belive that it was proof that the north inteded to wage war agisnt them and exterminate the white southerners.
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presdient abraham linclon was elected southers feared the slavery would be abolished
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confederate forces demanded the surrender of the fort when the forst leading cammander denied there request they opened fire on the fort causeing war.
