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It was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election

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On December 20th,1860, South Carolina became the first slave state to declare the it had seceded from the U.S.

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Lincoln challenged Stephen Douglas in 1858 for the U.S. Senate.

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APUSH Review: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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California was able to enter the Union as a free state.

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Was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a US arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

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Legislation that provided for the admission of Main to the Us along with Missouri as a slave state.

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May 24th, 1856, along Pottawatomie Creek, Brown and his men killed 5 pro-slavery men in Kansas.

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Its new constitution guaranteed citizens the right to own slaves.

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Was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

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A plan that would divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories.

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AN antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, spoke out powerfully against slavery.

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A pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States.

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The idea that political power belongs to the people, who should decide on banning or allowing slavery.

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Was a network of people (African Americans and whites) who offered shelter to escaped slaves from the South.

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A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or formerly slavery.

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Illinois lawyer who warned that a future court ruling would prohibit states from banning slavery.

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He supported the idea of building a railroad to the Pacific Ocean.