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On December 20,1860 South Carolina seceded from the Union, while attending a meeting in Charleston, South Carolina. Six states followed and created the Confederate States of America.

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Lincoln won with 40% of the votes. He was greatly disliked in the South that he wasn't even apart of the ballet. With him winning the South was now in minority. Southerners feared that Congress would try to abolish slavery.

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Brown seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.He wanted these weapons so that he can arm slaves for a rebillion to end slavery.

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Multiple political debates between Lincoln and Douglas. They both ran for senator in Illinois, where slavery was the main issue.

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The supreme Court decided that no African Americans couldn't be a citizen of the United States. The Missouri Compromise was now unconstitutional

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In 1856 a man in Congress (Charles Sumner) voiced his thoughts in a speech titled "The Crime Against Kansas." His thoughts prevoked a man nemed Preston Brooks had beaten him with his cane. This attack had divided the nation even more.

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They had both sides in the area, and with them getting neck and neck it turned violent. May 21,1856, southerners attacked Lawrence, which outraged northerners. John Brown and seven followers inculding his four sons attacked/ dragged five men and hacked them to death with swords.

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Is an act that had created new territories in the Nebraska and Kansas regions. It abolished the Missouri Compromise, and gave the new regions a choice on wether they should allow slavery or not.

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Many Northerners didn't want to enforce and follow through, while Southerners felt that the act wasn't doing enough. When a runaway slave was captured they had no legal rights, so this caused them to escape to Canada. Many decided to stand and fight. Those who helped had the risk of being jailed themselves.

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Henery Clay has created a compromise that pleased both sides. It had four parts to it. The compromise was accepted after nine months. The compromise lead to the crumbling of one of the country's main political parties .(Whig Party)

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For three years congress couldn't decide on slavery in the new territory that they had gained. Southerners wanted slavery, but Northerners didn't. In order to create a compromise Southerners proposed a bill that north of the line that leads to the Pacific no slavery, South gets slavery. However it was rejected by congress in the north. California wanted to be a free state. Which ended in a deadlock yet again.

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For ten years the issue on slavery was kept out of Congress because of the gag rule. An amendment called the Wilmot Proviso stated that slavery and involuntary servitude should ever exxist in any part of of Mexico that America gained in the war. Many southerners opposed the amendment because they stronly believe that they shouldn't say where they can take "their property."

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Many slaves were rebeling by running away to freedom in the North. Sympathetic Northerners helped them to escape and runaway. Slaveholders demanded Congress to creat and pass a fugitive slave law so that they can recapture "their property."

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John Quincy Adams predicted that the issue of slavery was at an agreement. The Second Great Awakening caused the issue to break open again. Americans believed that the Lord's work was to end slavery for good.

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820, is when they admitted Missouri to the Union of slave states. They evened it out by adding Maine as a free state, this was so they can maintain the balance between the two. They also created an invisable line stating that north of the line slavery was to be banned.