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However, a powerful force was building that soon pushed the issue into the open again: the Second Great Awakening. Leaders of this early-1800s religious revival promised that God would bless those who did the Lord's work. For some Americans, the Lord's work was the abolition of slavery.

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Weeks after president Lincon was elected the whispers of the south suceding from the union were heard.The Senate committee held its first meeting on December 20, 1860. Just as the senators began their work, events in two distant cities dashed their hopes for a settlement. In Illinois, a senator named Lyman Trumbull asked President-Elect Abraham Lincoln whether he could support a compromise on slavery. Lincoln's answer was clear. He would not interfere with slavery in the South, and he would support enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act. However, Lincoln drew the line at letting slavery extend into the territories. On this question, he declared, “Let there be no compromise.”Meanwhile, in Charleston, South Carolina, delegates attending a state convention voted that same day—December 20, 1860—to leave the Union. The city went wild as church bells rang and crowds filled the streets, roaring their approval. A South Carolina newspaper boldly proclaimed, “The Union Is Dissolved!” Six more states soon followed South Carolina's lead, and in February 1861, those states joined together as the Confederate States of America.This all leading into a Civil War.

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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Lincoln won the presidential election with just 40 percent of the votes, all of them cast in the North. In ten Southern states, he was not even on the ballot.For white Southerners, the election of 1860 delivered an unmistakable message. The South was now in the minority. It no longer had the power to shape national events or policies, and Southerners feared that, sooner or later, Congress would try to abolish slavery.

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Rather than wait for Congress to act, Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown wanted to use the weapons to arm slaves for a rebellion that would end slavery.

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Lincoln's opponent in the Senate race was Senator Stephen Douglas, an Illinois senator who saw no reason why the nation could not go on half-slave and half-free.During the Lincoln - Douglas Debates , Douglas argued that the Dred Scott decision had put the slavery issue to rest, but Lincoln disagreed. In his eyes, slavery was a moral, not a legal, issue.

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In 1857, the slavery controversy shifted from Congress to the Supreme Court, which was about to decide a case concerning a Missouri slave named Dred Scott.

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Certainly, it was not about to die out in the memories of enraged Southerners. Two days after the speech, a relative of Senator Butler, South Carolina representative Preston Brooks, attacked Sumner in the Senate, beating him with his metal-tipped cane until it broke in half. By the time other senators could pull Brooks away, Sumner had collapsed, bloody and unconscious.

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The struggle over slavery soon turned violent. On May 21, 1856, pro-slavery settlers and so-called “border ruffians” from Missouri invaded Lawrence, Kansas, the home of the antislavery government. Armed invaders burned a hotel, looted several homes, and tossed the printing press of an abolitionist newspaper into the Kansas River.

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Applies popular sovereignty to both territories ,however there was voting fraud. when Kansas voted a pro-slavery constitution which later lead to blood-shed.

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Under the Fugitive Slave Act, a person arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal rights. People in the North and the South were unhappy with the Fugitive Slave Act, though for different reasons.Northerners did not want to enforce the act, whereas Southerners felt the act did not do enough to ensure the return of their escaped property.

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Included California statehood and fugitive slave law along with popular sovereignty for other territories meaning that they could vote whether they were a free or slave state. The compromise was made by Henry clay in an effort to deal with the slave controversy.

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The debate over would California join the union as a free or a slave state. if the state were to join it would upset the balance between the free and slave states.

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This was the debate over whether or not the new territories in the west would become free or slave states.

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Fugitive slaves are slaves that escaped their plantation and plantation owners. once they have done this they go along the underground railroad to get to freedom, some fugitive slaves include Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglas.

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an agreement that was made by congress in 1820 under this Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state while Maine was admitted as a free state. A line was drawn at the coordinates 36'30. This banned slavery north of this line, except in Missouri,where slavery was permitted south of the line. While the compromise kept the Union together, it pleased very few people. In the North the congressmen who accepted Missouri as a slave state were referred to as traitors. In the South, slaveholders deeply resented the ban on slavery in  states that might later become states.