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page 1James Buchanan administration controversies
Dred Scott v. Sandford
1857 U.S. Supreme Court case on the citizenship of African-Americans
Bleeding Kansas
violent political confrontations in the United States centered around slavery
Panic of 1857
first world-wide economic crisis
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
1859 effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states