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An agreement that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter the Union as a free state. This also divided the Louisiana Teriitory into two areas, North and South.
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A political party formed to voice the views of the politicians who wanted the abolishment of slavery and the new territories acquired by the United States to remain free states.
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A document written by Henry Clay as an attempt to smooth out the comfrontation between the slave states and the free states.
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A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed how evil slavcery could be. This proved new information to much of the nation.
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A political party formed by the Know-Nothing and Whig parties. Abraham Lincoln was the first successful canidate of the Republican party.
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An Act of Congress that repealed the Missouri Compromise and organized the remaining territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase to be admitted to the Union as states.
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The sequence of violent events involing pro-slavery and abolitionist elements that took place in the Kansas Territory.
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A slave named Dred Scoot went with his master to Illinois and Minnesota, claiming this made him a free man. He ended up sueing his owner for damages and physical abuse. This led to Congress not beign able to constitutionally exclude slavery from the territories.
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Led a band of determined patriots on a mission to seize the arsenal at Harper's Ferry. They succeded but eventually John Borwn was convicted and hung for treason.
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The elction of 1860 was a very important and pivotal election in history. The North and South continued to be against each other, fight over agriculture and slavery.