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After the election of the president South started to consider seceding from the union, and those thoughts were further solidified when the president refused making compromises. Image from seanwes.com

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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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In 1860 Lincoln became a President while his opponents were split, new President meant that slaver could get outlawed in the future, and south shivered in fear. Image from Britannica.com

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John Brown took another approach to ending slavery, he wanted to arm slaves and end it once and for all. But his plans were not successful, his man were killed or captured, and Brown was killed for treason. Image from biography.com

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Lincoln and Douglas became opponents in the senate race, Douglas was okay with having the nation split between free and slave states, and Lincoln could not agree less. Lincoln thought that slavery was a moral issue, and these debates brought up more conversations that would follow. Image from loa.com

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In 1857 man by the name of Dred Scott was traveling to Wisconsin with his master, and after being there he went to court claiming that his is now free because he is in a free state. Image from Britannica.

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Violence broke out in congress when Charles Sumner a senator of Massachusetts accused Dongles of wanting to turn Kansas into a slave state, later he made a speech called " The Crime Against Kansas" that outraged many senator, because of that Sumner was later beat up by angry senators. Image by national geographic

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Soon people from North and South pored in into the Kansas to overpower the other party, from this bloodshed broke when southerns attacked Lawrence, Kansas. They burn, looted, and destroyed couple of antislavery news paper printing presses. Image by huffingtonpost.com

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The new Nebraska-Kansas Act would destroy the Missouri compromise by allowing Nebraska and Kansas to choose if they wanted to use slavery.  Image by nebraska.gov.

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The Fugitive Slave Act was meant to capture the slave that could escape to the North, but both North and South were not happy with the act, North did not wanted to reinforce it, and South wanted the act to do more. The act was not efficient because of the resistance from North, out of the thousands of slaves that escaped only hundreds were cough. Image by history.com

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Comprise of 1850 are agreements made for California to join the union as a free state. These agreements consist of allowing New Mexico and Utah to choose if they would like to be free or slaved states. And on January 21, 1850 Kentucky senator teamed up with Massachusetts to end deadlock over California. Image is Californian flag.

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One of the territory that was gained from Mexico was California, California wanted to join the union as a free state. And the south would not except California because it would destroy balance between free and slaved states. Image by Georgia Studies

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when war with Mexico was just staring president asked for funds the where needed for Mexican war, and during that time David Wilmot added  an amendment to the bill Wilmot Proviso. It stated that in new states there could be no slavery. Image by American Anthropological Association

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Many slaves would escape from the south to the north, and since slaves were seen a property southerners wanted congers to make fugitive slave laws to help them retrieve their property. Image by history.com

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A new push for abolition of slavery began, it was a new religions revival called Second Great Awakening. Image by ushistory.org.

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It was a compromise, where Missouri could enter the Union as a slave state , and Maine was entered as a free state.    That compromise was done to keep the union together instead of divided. Image by  Heritage Society.