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1. The Wilmot Proviso 1846 2. The Fugitive Slave Act 1850 3. Compromise of 1850 4. The Underground Railroad 5. Abolitionists –William Lloyd Garrison 6. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 7. The Ostend Manifesto 1852 8. The Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 9. “Bleeding Kansas” 10. The Walker Expedition 1855 11. “The Sack of Lawrence” Kansas 1856 12. “The Pottawatomie Massacre” 1856 13. Brooks-Sumner Affair 1856 14. Formation of anti-slavery political parties(Liberty / Free-Soil / Republican) 15. The Dred Scott v. Sanford decision 1857 16. The Lecompton Constitution 1857 17. The Lincoln-Douglas debates 1858 18. The Freeport Doctrine 19. John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA 1859 20. John Brown’s hanging 21. The Election of 1860 22. Southern secession 1860 23. Firing on Fort Sumter 1861 24. The Crittenden Compromise 25. Harriet Tubman