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In Springfield Illinois, a reported asked Abraham Lincoln if he could support a compromise on slavery and Lincoln responded saying he could not interfere with slavery in the south. In Charleston, South Carolina, delegates voted on the same day to leave the union.
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#14 Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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Lincoln won, but it was it was considered strange because 40 percent of votes were from Northerner states and in ten states, he was not in the ballot. Southerners soon feared that Congress would abolish slavery.
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John Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown wanted to use the weapons to arm slaves for the rebellion.
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Many political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Their debates were mostly about slavery.
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In 1857, the slavery controversy moved from Congress to the Supreme Court. A Missouri slave named Dred Scott traveled with his owner to a no slave state and went back to Missouri to win his freedom.
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Charles Sumner of Massachusetts wrote a speech called,"The Crime Against Kansas", this speech was describing all the violence happening in Kansas. Two days after the speech, Preston Brooks attacked Charles Sumner with the metal tip of his cane.
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Towns in the South sent settlers to Kansas to support slavery and towns from the North sent settlers to the territories to oppose slavery. The arguments over slavery soon turned into violence and some people burned down a hotel, stole others, and threw printing presses into rivers.
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An act that created the territories of Nebraska and Kansas and abolished the Missouri Compromise. They let settlers decide if there should be slaves or not in the territories.
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Anyone arrested as a runaway slave would have their rights taken away and if anyone helped them escape, they would be jailed. Northerners refused to enforce this act while southerners said that the act did not ensure the return of their slaves.
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Henry Clay was the creator of the Missouri Compromise and wanted to let California into the union. Henry Clay needed a senator, Daniel Webster for support.
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Congress debated about slavery for 3 years. Southerners proposed a bill that would expand the Missouri Compromise all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
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The gag rule kept all slavery issues aside for 10 years. David Wilmot added an amendment know as the Wilmot Proviso which was prohibiting slavery in Pennsylvania.
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Slaves who tried to escape from slavery. Southerners saw them only as property.
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Abolitionists attacked slavery in newspaper, books, and meetings. Congress set aside all antislavery petitions in 1836 which was called the "gag rule".
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Agreement made by congress in 1820 which Missouri was considered a slave state. Maine was asking to be considered as a free state.

Source: http://socialstudieswithasmile.com/Missouricompromise.html