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The antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, spoke out powerfully against slavery.

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The Free Soil Party supported the Wilmont Proviso.

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Favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country.

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Important congressional proposal in the 1840s to prohibit the extension of slavery into the territories.

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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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It's new constitution garenteed citizens the right to own slaves.

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In this climate of distrust, Americans Prepared for another presidential election of 1860.

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The court reviewed and decided the complex case involving an enslaved man named Dred Scott.

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Was the 16th president of the United States of America, who successfully oversaw the Civil War to preserve the nation. He played in key role in passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which officially ended slavery in America.

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By early 1856 Kansas had two opposing governments, and the population was angry.

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

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Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave, who is someone forbidden to quit their service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as their property

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Califonia was able to enter the union as a free state.