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The Fugitive Slave Act - brought in to appease the South for admitting California to the USA as free soil.

The success of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', stimulating Abolitionist sentiment in the North.

The verdict of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott appeal - they declared that the Constitution gave full protection to a man's property, including slave property.

John Brown's raid on the Union arsenal, aiming to give weapons to slaves.

The split of the Democratic Party, ensuring a Republican victory at the election of November 1860, with compromise candidate Abraham Lincoln - on hearing the result, South Carolina broke away from the USA.

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