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The favoring of interests of one section/region over the entire country.

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A document created by northerner David Wilmot stating that slavery shall not exist in any part of territory.

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Anti-slavery northerners that supported the Wilmot Proviso.

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A law passed that made it a crime to help out escaped slaves in free areas. It also allowed officials to arrest those slaves.

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An antislavery novel which spoke out powerfully against slavery, and was written by the daughter of Connecticut's minister.

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A plan that would divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into Kansas, and Nebraska. This would then allow the people in each territory to decide on slavery.

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

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Bleeding Kansas: Causes, Events, and John Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre

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A political party that was formed in 1854 that was against the spread of slavery in the west.

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Abe Lincoln was nominated in 1858 to run for the U.S. senate by Illinois Republicans. He went up against Democrat Stephen Douglas. Lincoln stressed that democrats would soon spread slavery across the nation, and the Dred Scott decision.

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The case of Scott V. Stanford was a supreme court case in 1857 that ruled slaves not U.S. citizens, and were not able to sue in federal court.

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After the Dred Scott Decision, this put the question slavery back in the hands of American Citizens. This helped Douglas win the Senate seat, yet Lincoln would become a strong leader for the Republican Party.

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John Brown and his men raided Harper's Ferry, Virginia on October 16th, 1859. They took over the arsenal in hopes of starting a slave rebellion.

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History Gone Wilder | Have History Will Travel

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Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia formed the Confederacy on December 20th, 1860. This gave the rights to the citizens of the states to own slaves.