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| Where proslavery and antislavery government existed at the same time |
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| first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery |
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| his death was a rallying point for abolitionists |
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| Congressional election of 1858 |
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| Lincoln becomes known throughout the country because of this election |
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| Senator from Kentucky who tried to save the Union by proposing a last-minute compromise |
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| wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
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| first state to secede from the Union in 1860 |
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| first president of the Confederate States of America |
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| belief that the states had certain rights that the federal government could not take away; justified secession |
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| main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates |
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| ran for president in 1860, but his name was not on most Southern ballots |
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| Stephen Douglas' plan for each state to have popolar sovereignty |
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| plan that specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico |
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| He was a slave who unseccessfully sued for his freedom |
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| Supreme Court decision that meant that the Constitution protected slavery |
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| upset the balance in the Senate |
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| admission of Missouri as a slave state would be controversial due to this reason |
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| He believed that slavery was a moral issue |
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| the plan that would maintain the balance in the Senate by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state |
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| law that required people to help catch runaway slaves |
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| first shots of the Civil War |
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