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The force of events moved very quickly upon the election of Lincoln. South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the Confederacy was formed. Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union.

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckenridge , and Bell. He was the first president from the Republican Party

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n October 16, 1859, John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South. He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal, arm slaves in the area and move south along the Appalachian Mountains,

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Historians have traditionally regarded the series of seven debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois state election campaign as among the most significant statements in American political history. The issues they discussed were not only of critical importance to the sectional conflict

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Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States

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The violence in Kansas greatly disturbed senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts to Sumner it was proof of what he had long suspected.

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Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.

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he Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free- Soilers. ... Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.

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Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished

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They debated what to d about slavery in the territory gained from Mexico Southerners wanted all of the Mexican cession open to slavery

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the gag rule kept the slavery issue out of the congress for ten years then they said they did not want slavery to exist

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Nat turners rebellion was one of the largest slave revolts but individual slaves also continued to rebel by running away to freedom in the North These fugitives from slavery were often helped in their escapes by sympathetic people in the North

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A powerful force was building that soon pushed the issue into the opening of the second great awakening for slavery coming back into play.

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An agreement made by congress in 1820 Maine was added as a free state and Missouri a slave state they were added into the union so it would be kept balanced.