american revolution
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- compromise of 1850
- Uncle Toms Cabin
- Bleeding Kansas
- introduced a new and stronger Fugitive Slave Act, obligated the federal government to aid in the recapture of liberated Black people and criminalized free people who aided the escape of the formerly enslaved.
- Dred Scott Decision
- abolitionist sentiment fueled by the release of Uncle Tom's Cabin helped usher Abraham Lincoln into office after the election of 1860
- Harper's Ferry
- . Its severity made national headlines, which suggested to the American people that the sectional disputes were unlikely to be resolved without bloodshed
- election of 1860
- This decision led to Northern protests and Lincoln's changes in laws toward slavery. The south ultimately still believed in this ruling and decided to break away
- Brown's raid helped make any further accommodation between North and South nearly impossible.
- The election of 1860 shaped the future of the United States by heralding the end of slavery and marked by a time of unprecedented violence in the nation
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