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The Missouri Compromise was the U.S federal legislation that stopped Northern attempts to prohibit slavery's expansion by admitting Missouri as a slave state.
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In 1844, Congress finally agreed to annex the territory of Texas. Texas entered the U.S as a slave state.
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Five laws passed in September of 1850 that consisted of the issue of slavery. It was important because it made California a free state.
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was a part of the Compromise of 1850. This act means that slaves are required to return to their owners.
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The Republican Party emerged in 1854 to combat the Kansas-Nebraska Act and expansion of slavery.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.
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The U.S Supreme Court ruling on March 6, 1857. It was about having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved person.
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Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He did this in attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people.
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Lincoln was elected President. He was in the Republican Party and got 180 electoral votes. His home state was Illinois.
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After a 33-hour bombardment by Confederate cannons, Union forces surrender in South Carolina's Charleston harbor.
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South Carolina became the first staled seceded on December 20, 1860. They wanted to secede because to increase hostility on the part of non-slaveholding States.
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Representative from six seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama to establish a unified government.