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Attempts to avoid civil war between the two sections - the slave-owning South and the free-soil North.
lawyers and slave owners
Millions of things did not occur in that period. You will have to be more specific.
John Whiteaker (born May 4, 1820 in Dearborn County, Indiana; died October 2, 1902 in Eugene, Oregon), the first Governor of Oregon, served between July 8, 1858 and September 10, 1862, including the whole of 1861.
Gilded Age
Gilded Age
1861-1865
There were 40 years between 1861 and 1901.
popular sovereignty
1820-1861 That's forty-one years. Some say it saved America.
Gilded Age
Nevada was a part of the Utah Territory until 1850 and became Nevada Territory in 1861. Nevada became a state in 1864. Nevada was neither a free state nor a slave state from 1820 - 1850.