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The additional land caused bitter debate about slavery.

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The newly passed Fugitive Slave Act made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.

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Abolitionists in the North used the stories of fugitive slaves like James Hamlet and Anthony Burns to gain sympathy for their cause. Slave

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Slavery was one cause of the civil war because the people in the North did not want.

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A Short History of Slavery | 5 Minute Video

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Frustrated delegates at the Democratic

National Convention turned to Franklin

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To say it was right or not right to have slavery.

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In his inaugural address President Pierce said his hope that the slavery issue had been put to rest “and that no sectional excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions."

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Lincoln challenged Douglas in what became the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates.

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Lincoln's Breakthrough at the Lincoln-Douglas Debates | Abraham Lincoln

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On the night of October 16, 1859, John Brown’s 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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The national outcome of the 1860 election gave Lincoln a victory in both the popular vote and the electoral vote with just under 40 percent of the popular vote which totaled 1,866,452, and 180 electoral votes.

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Lincoln insisted that he would not change slavery in the South. However he said that slavery could not expand and thus would eventually die out completely.

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return escaped slaves to their owners, and imposed penalties upon anyone who aided their flight.

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promise that they would not be harmed, and then slashed and stabbed them with a saber and shot them in the head.