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The compromise was made to settle disputes about slavery and treat the threat of the Union dispanding.
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Californians sought statehood, and after a heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free, nonslavery state by the Compromise of 1850.
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The reading helped many understand the immense pain enslaved mothers felt when their children were taken away from them.
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The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists in opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, seeking to prevent the expansion of slavery into U.S. territories.
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This act was passed because many believed that settlers in the new territories should have a say in whether slavery should be legal in their area.
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This event resulted from an intense debate over slavery and if it should be legal in Kansas.
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Charles Sumner had informed the Senate on the issue of whether Kansas should be a free or slave state.
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The decision was that the Supreme Court upheld slavery in US territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
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Lincoln made this speech to the Republicans across the North about the dangers of a slavery based disunion.
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Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860 in a four-way contest. Although Lincoln received less than 40% of the popular vote, he easily won the Electoral College vote over Stephen Douglas, John Breckenridge, and John Bell.