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Wasn't going to interfere with slavery in the South. Down in the South Carolina delegates voted to leave 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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Lincoln won the presidential election with just 40% of votes, all of them cast in the north serious in 10 southern states, he was not even on the ballot.

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Rather than wait for congress to act, Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

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

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A Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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Two days after the speech, a relative of Senator Butler, South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks, attacked Sumner in the Senate, beating hum with his metal tipped cane until it broke in half. By the time other senators could pull brooks away, Sumner had collapsed, bloody and unconscious.

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After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, settlers poured into Kansas. Most were peaceful Farmers looking for good Farmland ,but some settlers moved to Kansas either to support or to oppose slavery.

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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 Fugitive Slave Act said that any person who helped a slave escape ,or even refused to aid slave catchers ,could be jailed. This provision, people complained, would force many Northerners to become slave catchers.

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The agreements made in 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 trade.

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As a compromise, Southerners proposed a bill that would extend the Missouri Compromise line all the way to the Pacific. Slavery would be banned north of that line and allowed south of it . Northerners in Congress rejected this proposal.

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The gag rule kept the slavery issue out of Congress for 10 years. Then in 1846, President James Polk sent a bill to Congress asking for funds for the war with Mexico.

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A person who flees or tries to escape (for example, slavery)

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As John Quincy Adams predicted, for a time the "contest" over slavery was settled.However, a powerful force was building that soon pushed the issue into the open again: the Second Great Awakening. Leaders of the early-1800s religious revival promised that God would bless those who did the Lord's work. For some Americans, the Lord's work was the abolition of slavery.

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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 imagenary 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.