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The question of who had the power to allow or disallow slavery in the territories and the newly formed states.

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He wanted to get rid of slavery

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It settled the disputes between free and slave states

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Sound Smart: Compromise of 1850 | History

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made it a a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas

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Sound Smart: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | History

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Informed people about the evils of slavery. Uncle Tom's cabin the antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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A plan that would divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories.

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Sound Smart: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 | History

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Enforced the fugitive slave law

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Anti- slavery terrorists killed a lot of pro slavery people eon the Kansas territories

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He was a slave of Dr. John Emerson, who sued for his freedom.

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Lincoln became president and the south didn't like that.

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In each debate, Lincoln stressed that the central issue of the campaign was the spread of slavery in the West

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When John Brown and his sons killed a whole bunch of pro slavery people.

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In order to protect their states' rights, the institution of slavery.