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Martin Van Buren, Free-Soil leader, and Charles F. Adams, Free-Soil vice presidential candidate.

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An influential pre-civil war reform party that opposed the spread of enslavement Westward.

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Made up of five bills the agreement attempted to solve the issues and disputes over slavery, specifically over new land acquired from the Mexican-American War. It led to the Fugitive Slave Act which many Northerners refused to follow.

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A novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that helped to lay the groundwork of abolitionist idealogy with it's demoralization of slavery. Threatening the South it was a huge precursor to the Civil War and Bleeding Kansas.

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Formation of the Republican Party (1854)

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Formation of the Republican Party (1854)

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Abolitionist Whigs established a new political party which opposed the Westward spread of slavery, they became a huge political force in the U.S..

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Map of the areas affected from the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

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Repealing the Missouri Compromise it created two new territories that allowed for popular sovereignty. Many Northerners opposed this bill advocating the spread of slavery, this, in conjunction with the opposition too the Fugitive Slave Act, would lead to Bleeding Kansas.

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A conflict between abolitionists and Southerners.

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The violent conflict which occurred in 1855-1861 between pro- and anti-slavers. Extremists from both sides sought out and moved to the South to fight for their ideals; this later led to John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.

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Dred Sam Scott unsuccessfully sued with his wife, Harriet, for their, and their two daughters' freedom in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that African-Americans were property of the white man, therefore any state could allow slavery- this struck down the Missouri Compromise.

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A political cartoon of Republican Abraham Lincoln, and Democrat Stephen Douglas boxing.

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A series of seven debates between Republican Abraham Lincoln, and Democrat Stephen Douglas mainly about the spread of slavery to the West.

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A Southern militia battling against John Brown and a black man.

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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)

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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)

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In an attempt to initiate a slave revolt, extreme abolitionist John Brown tried raiding Harper's Ferry of weapons. The uprising failed overall- but not without a national recognition of the event as a Tragic Prelude for what was to come- the Civil War.

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Lincoln won the popular majority in the North- winning him the presidency alongside Hannibal Hamlin. This extremely consequential election would lead to much discourse between abolitionists and pro-slavers, later, the Civil War.