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After Lincoln’s election, many southern states started seceding (or leaving) the union until eventually all seceded.

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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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Abraham Lincoln, over a deeply divided Democratic Party, became the first Republican to win the presidency.

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John Brown invaded the town of Harper’s Ferry, his plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South.

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A series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' two United States Senate seats.

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A decision in the Dred Scott case, giving the right to slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories.

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During many Congress sessions, people would get violent over certain decisions, or actions done by Congress.

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A series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.

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A bill that allowed settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders.

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It was a pair of laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the United States.

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Five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issues of slavery.

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In 1849, Californians wanted to become an U.S. state, after the heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free state.

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It was debated over many years on which states would be free territory or slave territory.

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There were many slaves who left their master and traveled without authorization. Generally they tried to reach states or territories where  banned.

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John Adams had recognized that the Missouri Compromise didn’t settle the future of slavery in the U.S. and that it was only a temporary solution.

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An effort to keep balance of power in Congress between slave and free states. It admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.