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The over all problem with this is dividing nations. Since slavery was such a horrible problem, the North and the South have different views on slavery. The North doesn't like slavery while the South wants their slaves and property. Since there were many issues relating to slavery, those problems over time divided the nation and led to the Civil War.

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This was an agreement between anti-slavery and pro-slavery regulating slavery in the Western territories. It banned slavery in the new states North of the border of the Arkansas territory, not including Missouri.

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South Carolina called for a convention to secede from the Union. Eventually, the Confederacy was formed after many conventions were held. Within three months of Lincoln being in office, seven states had seceded from the Union.

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Abraham Lincoln is elected for president

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Abraham Lincoln is elected for president

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HE was elected in 1860 and was the 16th president. The election was held Tuesday, November 6, 1860.

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6th November 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President of the USA

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This was an effort to begin an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over the US arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. He wanted to use weapons to arm slaves for rebellion that would eventually end slavery.

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This was a series of seven debates concerned about the issue of slavery extension into the territories. Lincoln thought slavery wasn't legal. Although Lincoln lost the election, he became a national figure.

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Dred Scott was a slave that escaped and went to Wisconsin which was a free state and stayed there. He thought he should be freed from slavery because he said the stay made him a free man and in Wisconsin, slavery was banned.

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The Dred Scott Decision Explained: US History Review

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The Sumner affair occurred on May 22, 1856 in the US Senate. Representative Preston Brooks used a walking cane to attack the abolitionist Charles Sumner in retaliation to a speech he had given two days earlier about criticizing slaveholders including a relative to Brooks.

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North sent weapons to anitslavery (abolitionist) settlers for protection. Southern towns sent young men to Kansas to start destroying things.

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The Election of 1860 & the Road to Disunion: Crash Course US History #18

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This act allowed Southerners in Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. It also prohibits slavery North of the latitude 36 30.

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This act allowed the Southerners to have weapons in order to capture their slaves who escaped to free states.

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Senator Henry Clay attempts to seek an agreement between North and South. The Fugitive Slave Act was changed and slave trade in Washington DC was abolished. You could not buy or trade slaves in DC although you could bring them there from other places. The Northerners accepted the terms easily while the South threatened to leave the Union when the terms of The Compromise of 1850 had been accepted.

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In 1849, California entered the Union as a free, non slavery state by the Compromise of 1850. This happened after a heated debate in the US Congress about arising out of the slavery issue.

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Slaveholders demanded Congress to pass a fugitive slave law to help them get back their property but southerners thought this act did not protect their property.

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This act was passed September 18,1850 as part of the Compromise to return slaves that has escaped to another territory. Northerners didn't want to enforce the law.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68gi3C0A9Fo

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Congress voted in 1836 to set aside all anti-slavery petitions. This act helped hold the Union together for more than 30 years but it was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The North was anti-slavery and the South was pro-slavery.

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The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 making Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. While in 1854, the Missouri Compromise was revoked by the Kansas Nebraska Act. No salvery would be allowed in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36 degree 30 latitude line. http://slideplayer.com/slide/10869809/