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Slaves were being freed from there plantations and sent to the north through the underground railroad. The railroad was superseded by the civil war.

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The candidates of the elections were Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John Breckenridge, and John Bell. This event was an election but it was also because of the slavery problem. Abraham Lincoln won the election.

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Nat Turner was an enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people on August 21, 1831. His action set off a massacre of up to 200 Black people and a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people

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Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including the present-day states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming.

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This act required that slaves be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state. It also made the government responsible for finding/returning slaves.