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In the weeks of secession filled the air. Alarmed senaters formed a committee to searched for yet another compromise that might hold the nation together.

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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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With Lincoln opposition divied three ways, Lincoln sailed to victory. It was a odd victory Lincoln won the presidential election with just 40% of the vote.

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THe abolitionist John Brown adopted a more extreme approach. Rather than wait for congress to act.

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Lincoln's opponent in the Senate race was Senater Stephen Douglas. Lincoln lost the election however the debates were widly reported.

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When Dred Scout went to Wiscousin with his owner he tried to when his freedom. He was in a free state so he thought he could be free but it did not work.

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THe vionence in Kansas greatly disturbed senator charles summer of massachusetts. Senator Stephen Douglas had plotted with southerners to make Kansas a slave state.

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After the Kansas- Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, settlers poured into Kansas. Most were peaceful farmes but some settlers moved there to support or aposed it.

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The Kansas -Nebraska act was passed in 1854 and created two new territories. It also abolished the Missouri Compromise by leaving it up to the settlers.

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A person arrested as a runaway slave you basically had no legal rights. Many runaways fled all the way to canada rather than risk being caught and sent back to there owner.

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Clay the creator of the missori compromise. he had a new plan to end the deadlock.

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In the next three year congress debated what to do about slavery. southerns rejected california requst but the north was open arms to it.

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President James Polk sent a bill to congress asking  for some funds for the war of mexico and   pennsylvania. There was a  amendment added to the bill called wilmot Proviso sotherns strongly opposed it.

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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 the North. Then a law got passed called the gag rule it kept slavery issue out of congress because slave holders demanded a fugitive slave law.

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This all started because maine asking to enter the union as a free state for weeks. Then congress finally agreed to a compromise The missouri compromise of 1820 admitted missori to the union as a slave state and maine as a free state.

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after the contest of slavery was over the Second Great Awakening started. During the 1830, abolitionists flooded congress with antislavery petitions.