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The Wilmont Proviso outlawed slavery in any territory the United States might acquire from the war with mexico.
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a series of congressional laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states
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an 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their resients the right to decide whether to allow slavery.
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Pro and anti slavery settlers went to Kansas to vote, and Missourians came to the election illegaly and the anti slavery settlers boycotted. As a result the pro slavery mob attacked, hence the name.
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a supreme court case in which a slave, Dred scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to live in territories where slavery was illegal; the court ruled against scott
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John Brown had to capture the weapons on harpers ferry to give the slaves a chance to fight
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The election of 1860 was a presidency race between the north and the south. It was Douglas or Lincoln. The outcome was Lincoln as president.