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The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. February 17, 1820 - The Senate agreed to an amendment that prohibited slavery in the Louisiana
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Nat Turner was a slave who led a failed 1831 slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia.he was involved in the Civil War. He sold to plantation owner and slaveholder Joseph Travis. Turner and seven other slaves on the plantation killed Joseph Travis and his family while they slept. Nat Turner managed to escape and hid out for six weeks before he was captured. Turner and 16 of his followers were hanged on November 11, 1831. Most of the white people falling behind where killed as well.
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On Dec. 29, 1845. Because Texas came in as a slave state, this created controversy nationwide. It also triggered the short Mexican-American War, which the United States won decisively. Texas are that this state's nickname "The Lone Star" is in reference to its being republic from 1836 to 1845, and long fight for independence from Mexico.
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On April 25, 1846, Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor, killing about a dozen. They then laid siege to an American fort along the Rio Grande. Taylor called in reinforcements, and–with the help of superior rifles and artillery–was able to defeat the Mexicans at the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma.
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On February 2, 1848, signing in Mexico of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory. The land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850. A four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
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The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States. Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soldiers. By 1843, several hundred slaves a year were successfully escaping to the North, making slavery an unstable institution in the border states
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On January 4, 1854, Stephen A. Douglas, wanting to ensure a northern transcontinental railroad route that would benefit his Illinois constituents. A bill to organize the territory of Nebraska to bring the area under civil control. Kansas-Nebraska act divided the region into two territories- Kansas on the south and Nebraska on the north.
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Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. During the Civil War, Kansas suffered the highest rate of fatal casualties of any Union state, largely because of its great internal divisions over the issue of slavery.
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Dred Scott was a slave who sought his freedom through the American legal system. Dred Scott went the United States Circuit Court in Missouri, which upheld the Missouri Supreme Court’s decision. Scott and his lawyers then appealed to the Supreme Court.
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John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. John Brown spent much of his life failing at a variety of businesses–he declared bankruptcy at age 42 and had more than 20 lawsuits filed against him. On October 16, 1859, Brown and his band overran the arsenal.
