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Lincoln told he people his goal when war was over was to have lasting peace among them. Also created the Revenue Act.
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He continued from where Henry Clay ended with the Compromise. He later became Lincoln's opponent in both senatorial and presidential elections.
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Political rivalry in New York. It was to oppose the extension of slavery in the U.S. Both the Barnburners and Hunkers strongle opposed slavery.
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A amendment for military appropiation bills.It stated that California, Utah and New Mexico would be closed to slavery.
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She was a runaway slave from Maryland. Known as the 'Moses of her people." She led runaway slaves through a secret network of safe houses leading towards the North where they would be free.
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Helped settle the disagreements between free and slave states.Henry Clay made this compromise wih the help of Daniel Webster.
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Residents of a territory were for or again slavery. This provision appealed to New Mexico and Utah, it also appealed to Southerns.
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Fugitives were not entitled to a trial by jury. The act ensured that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage.
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Published by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It showed that slavery wasn't just a political contest, but a great moal struggle.
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Pierce was a democrate who served in the Mexican American War. Pierce and William R. King won the electoral college vote. They also defeated the Whig Party.
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There were tragic events that helped inspire the thought of civil war, also massacres, political uprisings, murders, and shadow governments also came up. This happend because people fought over whether a new territory would be a free or slave state. Kansas finally was part of the union as a free state.
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This repealed the Missouri Comptomise and introduced the idea of popular sovereignty- New terrtories could decide whether slavery would be allowed in their state.
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Was created by Jackson, Michigan. It opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act and didnt want slavery. But it also embraced many different opions.
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Supported longer naturalization period for immigrants. Also captured the goverorship of Massachusetts. Members of the Whig also joined this group.
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Charles Sumner accused two Democratic senators as the culprits of the crime, against Kansas. Stephan Douglas and Andrew Bulter, Charles had insulted them.Rrepresentive Preston Brooks was Butler's kingsman and had avenged Butler by punishing Sumners with a cane to beat a unruly dog with.
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A militant American abolionist. His raid at Harper's Ferry made a change to antislavery.
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Buchanan was against slavery but wanted to make it fare for the people who wanted slavery. He cmae up with the idea of new territory's deciding to be free or slave states.
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The freeport doctrine was created by Douglas. The Doctrine stated that slavery could be legally barred from territoies if police regulations were necessary.
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John Brown and his supporters captured citizens and seized the federal army on Harpers Ferry route,to help the slaves
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Elected President of Confederate States of America. He ran unopposed. He served as the temporary president for almost a year before becoming the offical president.
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Southern States that seceded the Union. When war beging at Fort Sumter they were joined by four states of the upper south.
