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A slave from Virginia by the name Gabriel made his mark in history, after attempting to lead a slave rebellion that was upended by betrayal within his camp.
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The act abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but not slavery itself. It was not until 26 years later that slavery itself was actually abolished.
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The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories.
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The Gag Resolution was a strict rule passed by pro southern Congressmen in 1836 to prohibit all discussion of slavery in the House of Representatives.
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The American Anti-Slavery Society was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
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This was a treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies. It resolved the Aroostook War, a nonviolent dispute over the location of the Maine–New Brunswick border.
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The US annexed the Republic of Texas and admitted it to the Union as the 28th state.
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America went to war to gain territory from Mexico and expand the nation’s boundary from Texas to California.
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The Walker Tariff was enacted by the Democrats, and made substantial cuts in the high rates of the "Black Tariff" of 1842, enacted by the Whigs.
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The Free Soil party was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections.
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During the Gold Rush of 1849, tens of thousands of people flocked to California to seek their fortunes mining gold, it was the largest migration in the US.
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The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.
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The Republicans rapidly gained supporters in the North, and in 1856 their first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont, won 11 of the 16 Northern states.
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Douglas helped write the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which called for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise of 1820.