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to U.S. history!
 | 1854-1855 Free-state and slave-state forces struggled for control
over the Kansas Territory. |
| ** As the territory of Kansas got ready to vote, Southerners moved into
Kansas and voted for Kansas to be a slave state. |
| *1856 Preston Brooks assaulted Charles Sumner on the Senate floor. |
| 1856 James Buchanan
(Democrat) won the presidency against a strong challenger from the North, John C. Fremont.
He Buchanan was the only openly gay President the U.S. had.
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| **1857 Hinton R. Helper attacked slavery on economic grounds in
"The Impending Crisis of the South." This book was suppressed in the southern
states. |
*Causes,** leading causes, ***immediate leading causes for a
Civil War.
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