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admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state in exchange for legislation .

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This compromise had 5 parts, 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status . It also set Texas' western and northern borders and included provisions addressing fugitive slaves and the slave trade.

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A white woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe was anti slave and she wrote a book based on how unfairly blacks were treated and how families got pulled apart .

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1852 KANSAS/NEBRASKA ACT			              

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1852 KANSAS/NEBRASKA ACT			              

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This act is most notable for effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise, stoking national tensions over slavery, and contributing to a series of armed conflicts known as "Bleeding Kansas".

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Lincoln/Net, 1818-1861: Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Rise of the Republican Party 1854-1856

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Lincoln was elected

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between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854.

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Bleeding Kansas - Summary, Causes & John Brown’s Role | HISTORY

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Bleeding Kansas describes the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854.

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that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an slaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom Scott was not a citizen and could not sue in a federal court.

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Split in Two: The Dred Scott Decision -- 1857

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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry,

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John Browns ill fated raid on the Harpers Ferry arsenal, 1859

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he 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 6, 1860.

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South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union on December 20, 1860. The victory of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election triggered cries for disunion across the slaveholding South

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he Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia (the Confederate Army did not yet exist), and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War .