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The Dred Scott verdict of 1857, which ruled that slavery was legal in every state of the Union.

The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, in which Stephen Douglas successfully argued that the people of each state could outlaw slavery if they wished. (Douglas won his senate seat over Lincoln).

The John Brown raid, which convinced the South that Abolitionists were trying to encourage an armed uprising of slaves.

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