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This compromise drew a line through the North and South that compromised all southern states would make slavery "obsolete" and would abolish slavery in the North.

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A treaty the brought an end to the Mexican-American War. The treaty included that Mexico would hand over Arizona, California, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah to the Americas.

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The West (States) have agreed to ban slavery or get rid of it but their only compromise with that ban was that they'll also ban blacks from coming to the West at all. No Blacks can enter the West if they agreed to ban it from there.

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This is the compromise that canceled out the Compromise of 1950 because when California became a state the line that was drawn in the original compromise (compromise of 1950) would cut California in half so California was established as a free state.

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A political party known as the Know-Nothings start running for presidency and actually start getting some recognition. Luckily they never got to the position of presidency but they got votes. They were known as the "Know-Nothings" because whenever they were asked about what they thought about political issues they wouldn't speak on it and say "they know nothing."

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When Kansas became new territory or became a state South and West fought over whether it should be a slave state or not. This caused people to start boycotting since this bleeding has been going on for a while it leads into the election of 1865.

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The only reason why we feel like this election was relevant was that it was the first presidential election we saw the Know-Nothings running for the presidency. Their party quickly falls but they held a good rep "county" wise. If the know-nothings hadn't run we would've seen more of a difference in the votes.

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Dred Scott was a slave who had traveled with his master to the North and then claimed to be a free slave because the North had abolished slavery. This claim went all the way to the Supreme court and the court had said "no matter where in the world you go your master owns you and has rights over you."

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A white man known by the name of John Brown starts having slaves revolt and break in to get weapons to break free from their masters. Sadly this guy gets caught and executed. The first and only time a state has done this so far.

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Lincoln gets elected as president; his plan was to fasten industrialization and make wages (tarrifs) and create "homesteads" for farmers to work efficiently in. Also just to continue to improve America as a whole.