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After Lincoln was elected as president, Southerners were scared that Congress would abolish slavery, so South Carolina and six other Southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. People in South Carolina then fired at Fort Sumter, which was the start of the Civil War

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#11 Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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#11 Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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Lincoln won the election with only 40% of the votes and most Southern states didn't even have him in the ballot. After he was elected as president, in an interview, Lincoln said he would not interfere with slavery in the South and he would support enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, but he didn't want slavery to extend into other states.

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Lincoln and Douglas were both running for Senator, Lincoln had challenged Douglas to a debate about slavery. Douglas said that the Dred-Scott case had already solved the slavery issue, while Lincoln said that the real issue was that the nation had split up. During the debate, Lincoln gained the approval of many Northerners, even though he lost the election.

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Dred Scott was a slave from Missouri and his owner had brought him to live in the free state, Wisconsin for a while. He sued his owner and argued that living in Wisconsin made him a free man. His case was brought to trial, but the court ruled that  Scott had no right to sue is owner, because, as an African American slave, he was not a U.S. citizen.
and that his stay in Wisconsin could not have made him a free man, because the Missouri Compromise itself was unconstitutional. After his trial it was announced that slavery was legal everywhere.

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Senator Charles Sumner made a brave speech about "the crimes of Kansas" and insulted many southerners including Senator Andrew Butler. A few days later Butler's nephew attacked Sumner and beat him with a metal cane. Northerners viewed the attack as another example of the brutality of pro-slavery southerners and were outraged by it.

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After the Nebraska-Kansas Act was passed, things became violent, pro-slavery activists targeted and attacked abolitionists in Kansas.
They burned down hotels and homes and threw newspapers into the rivers. Many people were also killed and murdered because of slavery debates.

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It was a proposal made by Stephen A. Douglas. It allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. People who opposed slavery and people who didn't all went to Nebraska and Kansas in hopes of being able to vote for the issue.

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It was a new law that stated Northerners also had to participate in the capture of suspected runaway slaves. Many Northerners defied this act openly, angering Southerners, while Southerners thought this law didn’t do enough to ensure the return of their escaped “property.”

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It was a compromise with four new rules passed by the U.S. congress. It stated that California would be added as a free state, New Mexico and Utah would be allowed to vote for themselves, slave markets would be banned in Washington, D.C. and the Fugitive Slave Act would be made.

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Fugitive slaves are also known as runaway slaves. They left their masters and usually went to territories that banned slaves, like Canada or free states.

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The Missouri Compromise may have solved the Missouri problem, but Congress received a bunch of new anti-slavery bills from the Second Great Awakening. The Missouri Compromise divided the nation into the North and South with an imaginary border into free and slave states. In the North, people were determined to abolish slavery, while in the South, people tried to stop the talk of abolition.

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It was an agreement to add  Missouri as a slave state but also put an imaginary boundary across the Louisiana territory. So, in 1821 Missouri became a slave state