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Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited South of the 36 degree mark
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formed by the supporters of the failed 1846 Wilmot proviso,including members of the whig party, the liberty party, and anti-slavery "barnburner' democrats.
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Fugitive slave act was amended and slave trade in washington D.C. was abolished
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anti-slavery novel by american author Harriet Beecher Stowe
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anti-slavery whigs had began meeting in upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party
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allowed people in the territories of kanas and nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
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series of violent political confrontations in the U.S. involving anti-slavery, free-staters, and pro-slavery
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decision by U.S, supreme court in which court held that african americans whether enslaved or free could not be american citizens
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raid on harpers fairy was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seazing a U,S. arsenal at harpers fairy
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19th quadrennial presidential held on tuesday and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War