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As a result of anti-slavery becoming more and more common after Lincoln is elected president, seven Southern states secede from the Union. Abraham Lincoln announced that he would not interfere with slavery but he will enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. Source: History Alive

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Later, Abraham Lincoln is elected as president only winning with only forty percent of people voting for him, most of his voters were Northerners hoping for slavery to be abolished. Southerners then feared that slavery would be abolished. Source: History Alive

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During John Brown's Raid, John Brown was planning to raid the arsenal in Virginia. Instead of trying to stop slavery through politics, he used physical methods for doing this. Source: History Alive

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Lincoln opposed Douglas' idea of slavery, Lincoln believed it was immoral for slaveholders to own slaves. In the end, Lincoln lost the election and an agreement over the slavery issue was far from happening. Source: History Alive

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The Dred-Scott Decision was an event where the Court was deciding whether Dred Scott, a slave was allowed to bring a case to the Federal Court. He stated that being in Wisconsin made him a free man. Source: History Alive

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Senator Charles Sumner believed Stephen Douglas was adding the Nebraska-Kansas act in favor of Southerners. In a response, he wrote a speech called "crime against Kansas", he was then attacked by Preston Brooks but survived. Source: History Alive

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The Bloodshed in Kansas was a struggle for slavery, northerners and southerners faced, pro-slavery settlers invaded the anti-slavery government. This gave northerners a reason to say how brutal the southerners were. Source: History Alive

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The Nebraska-Kansas was an act by Stephen A. Douglas added two new states into the union, Kansas and Nebraska. Northerners became frightened of this act because settlers could vote on whether to permit slavery. Source: History Alive

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The fugitive slave act stated that any person who helped a slave escape or refused to help slave catchers could be imprisoned. The northerners were unhappy with this act because they didn't support slavery, while the south did not believe this act would make slaves return to their slave owners. Source: History Alive

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Henry Clay, a senator for Kentucky created the Compromise of 1850. This compromise would admit California as a free state while Southerners could use the territories from New Mexico and Utah for slavery. This also stopped Washington D.C. from receiving any new slaves. After nine months, this Compromise was finally accepted by the Congress. Source: History Alive

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For three years Congress was deciding what to do with the land acquired from Mexico. The Northerners wanted the land to be closed to anyone, while the Southerners decided all of the land should be used for slavery. Source: History Alive

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A representative in Pennsylvania put another amendment in place known as the "Wilmot Proviso". In this amendment it was stated that slavery should not exist in territory acquired from Mexico as a result of the Mexican American War. Source: History Alive

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Fugitive Slaves, many times were helped by volunteers from the North. However, the South saw this as losing their own property, as a result slaveholders demanded the Congress for a fugitive slave act to be made. Source: History Alive

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In the 1830s, people who supported anti-slavery were wanting the Congress to ban slavery in all states. As Congress' response, they decided to set aside all the petitions banning slavery. Source: History Alive

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A compromise that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. The purpose of adding the same amount of free and slave states was to maintain the amount of power between both sides equal. Source: History Alive