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A plan that would divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories Kansas and Nebraska. They also allow the people in each territory to decide on the question of slavery.

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This act helped California enter the union.

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A well known politician from New Hampshire. Peirce promised to honor the compromise if 1850 and the fugitive slave act.

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A document stating that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory."

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The idea that political power belongs to the people, who should decide on banning or allowing slavery.

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Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional Ratification, by Professor John Kaminski

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Charles Summer criticized pro-slavery people in Kansas and personally insulted Andrew Pickens Butler, a pro-slavery senator from South Carolina.

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Anthony Burns was a fugitive slave from Virginia and was arrested in Boston. Abolitionist used force while trying to rescue him from jail, killing a deputy marshal.

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This act made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas. The slaveholders were permitted to take suspected fugitives to U.S. commissioners, who decided their fate.

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John Brown's raid began when he and his men took over arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in hopes to start a slave rebellion. Which was a important cause of the civil war.

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In 1858 John Brown tried to start an uprising. He wanted to attack the federal arsenal in Virginia and seize weapons there. One of his plans was to arm local slaves so they could kill or take hostage white southerners who stood in his way.

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Harriet was the daughter of Connecticut minister Lyman Beecher, moved to Ohio when she was 21. There she met fugitive slaves and learned about the cruelties of slavery.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin was an anitslavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, spoke out powerfully against slavery.

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On 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. John Brown was hoping to start a civil war by taking over Harpers Ferry.