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Semi-Daily Criss-Crosser

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resolved numerous border issues between USA and Canada, and ended Aroostrook War over the New Brunswick-Maine border
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a ruling in which the US Supreme Court stated that slaves and any American of African dissent were not citizens of the United States and could therefore not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts
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a series of violent confrontations between the northern and southern forces in the founding of Kansas
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an act that divided land west of Missouri into 2 Territories, Kansas and Nebraska. This act repealed the Missouri compromise
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President Polk sent John Slidell, a Louisiana lawyer, to Mexico City to address several issues with Mexico, mainly regarding disputes between the borders of the US and Mexico
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an edict issued by President Lincoln that freed the slaves of the Confederate States in rebellion against the union
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first and only major federal legislation to explicitly suspend immigration for a specific nationality, and was a prohibition on Chinese labor immigrants from entering the country
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an assault on an armed band of abolitionists in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt by taking over the federal armory, located at Harper's Ferry
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a violent confrontation between labor protesters and police in Chicago in May 1886
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an act passed to regulate and improve the civil service of the country and to replace the spoils system
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last major confrontation between the US Army and American Indians that took place on an Indian reservation in South Dakota in December 1890.
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a compromise that was intended to forestall the Civil War by proposing six constitutional amendments to Congress in December 1860 by which the Missouri Compromise was to be re-enacted and be extended to the Pacific
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an incident in which US Navy officer Charles Wilkes captured to confederate envoys aboard the British mail ship the Trent. Great Britain then accused the US violating British neutrality