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When Abraham Lincoln was elected as president in 1860, states began to succeed from the union. Slavery was official abolished on January 31, 1865.
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/secession

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14. Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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14. Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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Abraham Lincoln was elected as president in 1860. He was part of the republican party and he was against expanding slavery.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abraham-lincoln-elected-president

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In 1859 John Brown led 18 men into a small town in Virginia. He was trying to start a major rebellion in the south. He failed but did succeed at making the south and the north more divided.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/32c.asp

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The Lincoln and Douglas debates were a series of seven debates. These debates led to Lincoln election as president of the United States.
https://www.history.com/topics/lincoln-douglas-debates

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Dred Scott was a African American man who tried to get his freedom for him and his family by suing for it. He was unsuccessful and did not get his freedom at this time.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Dred-Scott-decision

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In 1856, a Republican ragged at a senator which  could of been the start of the Civil War.
http://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1851-1900/The-most-infamous-floor-brawl-in-the-history-of-the-U-S--House-of-Representatives/

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The Bloodshed in Kansas was a series of violent events in the US between 1854 and 1861 debating slavery in Kansas.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html

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This act of 1854 made it ok for people in their boarders to forbid slavery. This helped repeal the Missouri Compromise.
https://www.history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska-act

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This act was an act so people could return fugitive slaves. It was against the law to let a fugitive slaves go.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Fugitive-Slave-Acts

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This was a compromise in 1850 for the 5 laws for slavery. The goal for this Compromise was to figure out new laws for the fugitive slave act. This act made it easier for people in the south to recover fugitive slaves.
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Compromise1850.html

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In 1850, California was accepted as part of the union as the 31st state. California was a free state.
http://picturethis.museumca.org/timeline/early-statehood-1850-1880s/california-civil-war/info

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When the Missouri Compromise was happening, they were still dividing what states would be slave states and which would be non slave states. This led to the Civil War between the North and South.
http://edu.lva.virginia.gov/online_classroom/union_or_secession/unit/3/slavery_in_the_territories

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A famous rebellion was the rebellion that Nat Turner started. The slaves that rebelled killed 55 to 65 on August 21-23 1831 in Virginia.
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/nat-turner-peacemaking

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Congress did not want to breakup the Union so they decided to balance power between slave states and free states. Also, north of the Louisiana Purchase slavery was banned besides Missouri and south slavery has allowed.
https://www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise

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The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820, this made Missouri a new state and a slave state. Also Maine was a new free state.
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Missouri.html