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in the weeks following the election, talk of secession filled the air.

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with his opposition divided three ways.

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while Lincoln fought to stop the spread of slavery through politics, abolitionist john brown adopted a more extreme approach.

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a series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass, who were candidates in the Illinois race for us senator, in which slavery was the main issue.

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A supreme court decision in 1857 that held the African Americans could never be citizens of the united states and that the Missouri compromise was unconstitutional.

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The violence in Kansas greatly disturbed senator Charles summer of Massachusetts.

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After the Kansas - Nebraska was passed settlers poured into Kansas.

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An act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories.

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The people in the north and the south were unhappy about the fugitive slave act, although for different reasons.

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The agreements made an order to admit California into the union as a free state. These agreements included allowing the new mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and creating a stronger fugitive slave law.

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For the next three years, congress debated what to do about slavery in the territory gained from mexico.

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The gag rule kept the slavery issue out of congress for ten years.

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Nat turner's rebellion was one of the largest slave revolts, but individual slaves also continued to rebel by running away to freedom in the north. These fugitives from slavery were often helped in their escape by sympathetic people in the north

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John Quincy Adams predicted for a time the contest over slavery was settled.

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An agreement made by congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.