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

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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

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The Lincoln–Douglas debates were 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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In 1857, the Supreme Court decided the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford. ... His case made it all the way to the Supreme Court.scott. This 1888 portrait by Louis Schultze shows Dred Scott, who fought for his freedom through the American court system.

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The Violence made a split between the country.

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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 andNebraska 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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The 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

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Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek acompromise 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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Califorina was consisdered a free state and made a bad balance between free and slave states.

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They created Wilmot Proviso when land from mexico will not have slavery.

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Abolitionists help slaves escape from slavery. To southers northeners were like bank robbers.

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It made it where nobody could be born into slavery past 1842. The southers when

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Missouri was consided free state if going by the Ohio River. So a line at 36, 30' was the line.