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A comprimise that states that Missouri is a slave state but all other territory above 36 degrees 30 north is free.
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Van Buren wanted to stop the expansion of slavery.
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California is free and the remaining land is decided by popular vote in the territory.
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Stated that runaway slaves are to be arrested and given no trial and all citizens must help capture them.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in response to the fugitive slave act.
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Republican party loses election; they gained power in politics and opposed slavery.
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Abraham Lincoln vs. Douglas runs for president.
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South Carolina suceded from the union in response to Lincoln being elected president.
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Kansas no longer supports slavery.
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The nation begins to break apart and a civil war begins.
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Lincoln ends slavery as an official war measure in the Emancipation Proclamation.
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congress passes a draft law forcing men to join the army.
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Lee surrenders
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The people work to reconstruct the union.
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Lincoln was shot and Andrew Johnson took office.
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Blacks are legally allowed to vote.
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Tilden vs. Rutherferd B. Hayes; ended reconstruction.
