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The election of Lincoln made the force of events move very quickly. 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 won the election with 40% of votes from the North. In Southern states, he wasn't even on the ballot.

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John brown, an armed abolitionist,  caused an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Many of his men were killed or captured, Brown was convicted of treason and was sentenced to die.

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In 1857, the Supreme Court made a decision that said African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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Brooks had beaten Sumner of a Speech he had made over Slavery. Brooks had broke his metal cane and it took Sumner 3 years to recover.

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It was a number of events of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass, they were candidates in Illinois that were running for the U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main problem.

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On May 21, 1856, pro-slavery settlers and so called "border ruffians" from Missouri invaded Lawrence, Kansas. Their was armed invaders that burned a hotel, looted several homes, and tossed the printing press of an abolitionist newspaper into the Kaw River.

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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. It also abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine if slavery would be allowed in the new territories .

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It was a law that was passed by Congress in 1850. People from the South wanted to make a law to return there runaway slaves.

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The Compromise of 1850 was the agreements that was made to admit California  into the Union as a free state. Those agreements included allowing 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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Southerners proposed a bill that would extend the Missouri Compromise line all the way to the Pacific. In 1849, California applied for admission to the Union as a free state.

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The South made a bill called the Wilmot Proviso, which extended the Missouri compromise line to the pacific ocean. The North made sure the law wasn't passed because they wanted it to be a free state.

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Fugitive slaves are people who flee or tries to escape  from slavery.

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As the Second Great Awakening progressed, people of the religious revival promised that God would bless those who did the Lord's work and for some Americans , it was the abolition of slavery. This unraveled the Missouri Compromise by causing abolitionist to flood Congress with an anti-slavery petition.

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The Missouri Compromise passed Congress in 1820. It admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.