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The second Continental Congress for the Northwest Territory adopted the Northwest Ordinance on July 13, 1787, which listed a Bill of Rights and created new states in the United States.

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=8

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JANUARY 29, 1850

People who lived in the north became enraged citizens, and the north was forced to support the slave system. This event made California a "FREE STATE" in the union. The compromise included a slave act that allowed officials to arrest anyone who was labeled as a "RUN AWAY" slave. Anyone who was a runaway was denied trial, and the citizens were required to help capture any runaway slave

Compromise 1850 https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs

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As part of the Compromise of 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which stipulated that the state governments would assist the slave owners in capturing fugitive slaves and set forth rules for escaping slaves and those who assist them in escaping

Fugitive Slave Acts: & image

https://www.britannica.com/event/

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On May 30, 1854, Congress passed the Kansas-Nebra Act, which gave Kansas and Nebraska the freedom to choose whether or not to become slave states.

https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/the-sectional-crisis/

https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/the-civil-war/

http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln

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During the period known as "Bleeding Kansas," proponents of slavery and opponents of it clashed violently over whether Kansas would remain a slave state or remain a free state.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Bleeding-Kansas-United-States-history

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November 1860 saw the holding of the 1860 presidential contest, which pitted the Republicans against the Democrats and the Union over the issue of slavery in other states. Abraham Lincoln emerged victorious on the Republican side.

1860 United States Presidential Election https://www.britannica.com/even

image: https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1860

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''Battle Cry of Freedom,'' which is part of the Oxford History of the United States being written under the general editorship of C. Vann Woodward, covers the era from the Mexican-American War to Appomattox, but it is the slavery issue that compelled Mr. McPherson's interest. The book was created to reflect on our past and to let history be known so it would not repest itself. His first novel, which was released 22 years ago, was about Black people and abolitionists.