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Lincoln wasn't going to interfere with slavery in the south. Down in South Carolina delegates voted to leave the union. The city went wild as church bells rang. After them 6  more states left and formed the confederate states. This began the Civil War.

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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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Lincoln won the presidential election with just 40 percent of votes, all of them cast in the North. In ten Southern States, he was not even on the ballot.

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Rather than wait for congress to act, Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

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A series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main use.

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A supreme court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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The violence in Kansas greatly disturbed Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. Preston Brook's savagely beat Charles Sumner on the senate floor in retaliation for Sumner's speech against the raid on Lawrence, Kansas.

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The struggle over slavery became violent. On May 21, 1856 pro-slavery settlers and so-called "border ruffians" from Missouri invaded Lawrence, Kansas, and the home of antislavery government.

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Created two new territories , Kansas and Nebraska, it abolished the Missouri compromise by leaving it up to the settlers themselves to vote on whether to permit slavery in the two territories.

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This was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850. It wanted free African Americans in Boston to watch out fro slave catchers. Anyone that helped an escaped slave went to jail.

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The agreements made in order to admit California in the Union as a free state. These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the slave trade in Washington, D.C, and creating a stronger fugitive slave law.

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California applied for admission to the Union as a free state. Northerners in Congress welcomed California's request while Southerners rejected.

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A bill that said neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist, in any territory part of Mexico.

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Someone who is forced to work and flees/leaves to get away.

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As our country grew and new states were added things arose such as the Second Great Awakening and anti slavery movements.

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An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.