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Ever since entering Congress in the mid-1840s, Stephen Douglas had supported the idea of building a railroad to the Pacific Ocean

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Abolitionist John Brown was from New England, but he and some of his sons had moved to Kansas in 1855.

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

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Along Pottawatomie Creek, Brown and his men killed five pro-slavery men in Kansas.

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The new pro-slavery settlers owned guns, and antislavery settlers received weapons shipments from friends in the East.

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a plan that would divide the reminder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories.

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Antislavery northerners formed a new party.

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Just to days after Buchanan be came president, the supreme Court issued a historic ruling about slavery .

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The Dred Scott Decision Featuring Justice Neil M. Gorsuch

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The antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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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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African Americans have no freedom of what they do.

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Congress also reacted to the violence of the Sack of Lawrence.

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"Caning of Charles Sumner" A Short Educational Film

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California was able to enter the Union as a free state.