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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

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On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States

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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

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a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate

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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

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Many things happened where there was many confusions in congress where they disagreed very much

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series of violent confrontations in the US between 1854 and 1861

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It allowed people it the Nebraska-Kansas territory to decide it they wanted to be free or slave states.

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Part of the Compromise of 1850 between southern slave holding and northern free soilers.

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Slave trade was abolished in Washington D.C. That would be settled between north and south

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California would enter the Union as a free state after heated debates.

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It prohibited slavery in new states north of the border of the Arkansas territory, excluding Missouri.

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In the history of slavery in the United States, "fugitive slaves" (also known as runaway slaves) were slaves who left their master and traveled without authorization

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The Missouri Compromise resolved the issue by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also drew a line across the Louisiana Territory. In the future, slavery would be permitted only south of that line.

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An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to he Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. It also created an imaginary line in which any future states north of this line would be a free state and south of the line would be a slave state