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American Colonization Society: focused on transporting blacks back to Africa.
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American Colonization Society: focused on transporting blacks back to Africa.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act wrecked two compromises: the Compromise of 1820 was repealed by the act; the Compromise of 1850
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This series of emancipation setbacks was known as the nullification crisis
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American Anti-Slavery Society to oppose slavery.
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Thee government ordered the southern postmasters to destroy abolitionist material due to anti-abolitionist mobbing and rioting at a postal office in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Enslaved Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad rebelled and took control of the ship
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Enslaved Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad rebelled and took control of the ship
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The population of California consisted of Spanish-Mexicans and Indians.
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The independent treasury was restored
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Nicholas P. Trist: chief clerk of the State Department; signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Gold was discovered in California.
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Britain's most important manufactured item was cotton cloth.
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Britain's most important manufactured item was cotton cloth.
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In the Democratic Convention in Baltimore, the Democrats chose Franklin Pierce as their candidate for president.