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Reaching the Americas the crew of slave ships prepared the Africans for sale.
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Because of this event, the British House of Lords passes an Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
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The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rialries triggered by the request of Missouri.
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This was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War.
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This was a package of five seperate bills passed by the united States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year poltical confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican American War.
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This was when California was admitted as a free state in 1850.
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This law was to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory.
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This book that was published is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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This allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves wheter or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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This was a series of violent political confrontations in the united States involving anti-slaveyr "Free-staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861.
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