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Preston Brooks, attacked Summer in the senate, beating him with his metal tipped cane until it broke in half. By the time the other senators could pull brooks away, summer had collapsed, bloody, and unconscious. Reactions to the attacked

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In the south, towns sent their young men to Kansas , and in the north abolitionist raised money to send weapons to antislavery settlers.Before long, Kansas had two competing governments in the territory, one against it. The struggle over slavery soon turned violent. On may 21,1856 pro slavery settlers and so called "boarder ruffians" from Missouri invaded Lawrence, Kansas , the home of antislavery government.Armed invaders burned hotels, looted several homes, tossed the printing press of an abolitionist newspaper

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Created two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska. It also abolished the Missouri Compromise by leaving it up to the settles themselves to vote on whether to permit slavery in the two territories. Douglas called this policy popular sovereignty, or rule by the people

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1) Under the fugitive slave Act, a person arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal rights. 2)The fugitive slave act also said that any person who helped a slave escape , or even refused to aid slave catchers, could be jailed. This provision, people complained, would force many northern to become slave catchers.3) of tens of thousands of fugitives living in the north during the 1850s only about 300 was captured and returned to the owners during this time.

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1) California was admitted to the union as a free states. 2) No slaves can be bought or sold at Washington D.C . 3)A stronger fugitive

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Then, late in 1849, California applied for admission to the Union as a free state. Northerner in congress welcomed California with open arms, but southerns rejected California request. Making California a free state, they warned, would upset the balance between slave and free states

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David Wilmot added an amendment to the bill known as the Wilmot Proviso ( a proviso is an condition added to an agreement). The wilmot Proviso stated that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist" in any part of the territory that might be acquired from Mexico as a result of the Mexican- American War

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Individual slaves continued to rebel by running away, this act was bad for slave owners. Every slave owner saw their slaves as a valuable pieces of land. when the slaves left they were losing more money. to slaveholders northerners were no better than bank robbers.

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The Missouri compromise  unravels was the fail of the Missouri compromise of the 1820 to settle the differences between the north and south.

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The Missouri Compromise was an agreement made by congress in 1820 under Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.