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Abraham Lincoln is elected as president 

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Abraham Lincoln is elected as president 

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On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell. He was the first president from the Republican Party.

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On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South. He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal, arm slaves in the area and move south along the Appalachian Mountains.

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Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois state election campaign as among the most significant statements in American political history. The issue they discussed were not only of critical importance to the sectional conflict.

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Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States.

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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.

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The most infamous floor brawl in the history of the U.S house of Representatives erupted as members debated the Kansas Territory's pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution late into the night of February 5-6.

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Preston Brooks savagely beaten on the senate floor in retaliation for Sumners speech against the raid on Lawrence, Kansas, it took Sumner over three years to recover.

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Was passed in 1854 and created two new territories Kansas and Nebraska.

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Northerners didn't want to enforce the act.Southerner's  felt that the act didn't do enough to ensure the return of their escaped property.

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California got admitted as a free state. Southwestern territories to be set up without slavery. The compromise was finally adapted after the ninth month and tension still remained.

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The South was open to slavery but the north wanted nothing to do with it.

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The gag rule kept the slavery issue out of Congress for ten years. The Wilmot Proviso stated that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist.

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Slaves would escape and then be named a fugitive.

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Anti-slavery. Congress decided to set aside indefinitely all anti-slavery petitions.

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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. It also created an imaginary line in which any future state north of this line would be a free state and south of the line would be a slave state.