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made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials

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four leading candidates for the democratic presidential nomination emerged in 1852

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by early 1856 Kansas had two opposing government , and the population was angry

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senator Henry clay of

Kentucky had helped to settle Missouri crisis

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Abolitionists in the North used stories of fugitive slaves

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president pierce expressed his hope slavery should be put to rest, less then a year later he suggested that they build a railroad heading west

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a plan that would divide them into two new territories

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Preston brooks attacked Charles Sumner because he had given a speech 2 days earlier saying he criticized slave holders

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California applied to join the union as a state but would they join as a free state or a slave state?

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the additional land caused debate about slavery

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Senator Henry Clay his ideas would give both sides what they wanted

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many men went to the city of Lawrence to fight

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The Civil War: Lawrence Massacre & Guerilla War

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On may 24,1856 a long Pottawatomie creek brown and his men killed men who were pro-slavery

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Bleeding Kansas: Causes, Events, and John Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre