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The fugitive slave act required that slaves be returned to owners, even if they were in a free state.

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The Anti Slavery literature included written poetry, prose, and lyrical verse.

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Four leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination emerged

in 1852.

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The Kansas- Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories and allowed for popular sovereignty.

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Settlers had moved to Kansas to homestead in peace, but the

controversy over slavery began to affect everyone.

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Some Whigs, Democrats, Free-Soilers, and

abolitionists joined in 1854 to form the Republican Party, a political party united against the spread of slavery in the West.

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the Supreme Court issued a historic ruling about slavery.

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Lincoln challenged Douglas in

what became the historic Lincoln Douglas debates.

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On the night of October 16th, 1859, John Browns raid began when he and his men took over the arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion.

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Northern and southern Democrats chose senator Stephen Douglas. Northern and southern republicans chose Abraham Lincoln. That year Stephen won.

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Lincoln insisted that he would not change slavery in the South.

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The Real Reason why the South Seceded in 1861