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The Dred Scott verdict - which appeared to mean that slavery was legal anywhere in the USA.

The Lincoln-Douglas debates - won by Douglas, who said that each state should decide whether to be free or slave.

The John Brown raid - which made the Abolitionists look like terrorists, and gave respectability to Southern slave-owners.

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