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This series of laws tried to ease tensions between free and slave states. It included the Fugitive Slave Act which required citizens to help return escaped enslaved people. -
Allowed new territories to decide on slavery by popular sovereignty -
Violent clashes over whether Kansas would allow slavery -
Brooks attacked Sumner in Congress after an anti-slavery speech -
Supreme Court ruled enslaved people were property, not citizens -
Debates over slavery during the Illinois Senate race -
Attempted to start a slave rebellion -
His anti-slavery stance led Southern states toward secession