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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. State by state, conventions were held, and the Confederacy was formed. Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union.

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the United States, prompting 11 states to secede from the Union.

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Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery.

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Lincoln-Douglas debates definition. A series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858, when both were campaigning for election to the United States Senate from Illinois. Much of the debating concerned slavery and its extension into territories such as Kansas.

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After Dread Scott, a slave, sues for his freedom, the Supreme Court declares that blacks have no rights as citizens and that Congress cannot make laws concerning slavery in the territories

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Legislative violence broadly refers to any violent clashes between members of a legislature, often physically, inside the legislature and triggered by divisive issues and tight votes.

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Most people that lived in Kansas were peaceful farmers looking for good farmland, but some settlers moved to Kansas either to support slavery or oppose it.

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This act opens up the Great Plains to settlement and nullifies the Missouri Compromise by allowing the territory to choose whether to allow slavery. Eventually, it results in violence throughout Kansas as an antislavery and proslavery settlers battle for control of the territory.

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People in the North and South were unhappy with the Fugitive Slave Act for very different reasons. Northerners did not want to enforce the act while Southerners felt the act did not do enough for to ensure the return of their escaped property. Under the act, a person arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal rights. Many runaways fled all the way to Canada.

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When California applies for statehood as a free state, some Southerners threaten to secede. Congress resolves the crisis by redefining where slavery is permitted in the territories and enacting a stronger fugitive slave law.

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In 1849, California applied to join the Union as a free state. Northerners in Congress welcomed California with open arms but Southerners rejected California's request. Making California a free state would upset the balance between slave and free states.

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a proposal named, the "Wilmot Proviso" was made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican- American War. The Southereners claimed that Congress had no right to tell them where to keep their slaves.

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a person who flees or tries to escape from slavery.

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As the Second Great Awakening came, people of the religious revival promised that God would bless those who did the Lord's work and for some Americans, it was the abolition of slavery. This unraveled the Missouri Compromise by causing abolitionists to flood Congress with an anti-slavery petition.

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an agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missori 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.