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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 Lincolns election, seven states has seceded from the Union.

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14.) Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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14.) Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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In 1860, Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination. In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckenridge and Bell.

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U.S. marines were storming the arsenal at Harper's Ferry that was raided by John Brown and his men. Brown was charged with treason, convicted, and then executed by hanging.

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A series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephan Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main issue.

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Dred Scott sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that African Americans had no right to sue in federal courts and also struck down the Missouri compromise, making slavery legal in all the territories.

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Preston Brooks savagely beat Charles Sumner on the Senate floor in retaliation for Sumner's speech against the raid on Lawrence, Kansas. It took Sumner over three years to recover.

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Some settlers moved to Kansas either to support or to oppose slavery. In the South, towns sent their young men to Kansas, and in the North abolitionists raised money to send weapons to antislavery settlers.

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The Nebraska- Kansas Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves weather 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 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-soldiers. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves

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The compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, potentially upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and advert 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. Furthermore, California entered the union as a free state and  a territorial  government was created in Utah. In addition, an act was passed settling a boundary dispute between Texas and New Mexico that also established a territorial government in New Mexico.

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Californians sought statehood and, after heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free, non slavery state by the compromise of 1850. California became the 31st state on September 9, 1850.

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It was an agreement between the pro- and anti-slavery factions regulating slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in new states north of the border of the Arkansas territory, excluding Missouri.

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The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1739 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory.

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John Quincy Adams proposed a constitutional amendment saying that no one could be born into slavery after 1842. But, the "gag rule" prevented consideration of the antislavery proposal by Quincy Adams.

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In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a free state.