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The court's ruling of Dred Scott's case shocked northern abolitionists when they heard that Scott could not sue his owner because he was not nor could not be a US citizen. This also led to slavery being legal in all of the western territories.

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Seven southern states secede from the Union and become the Confederate States of America.

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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 is elected as president in 1860, where he won with only 40% of the votes, all cast in the north. This left the impression to southerners that they were becoming inferior to the northerners.

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A series of fiery debates arose when Abraham Lincoln creates a new political party: the Republicans. Though he didn't win the election in 1858, he left a lasting impression on the north, deepening the desire for abolition.

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Senator from Massachusetts, Charles Sumner, hurls insults at southern senators, and a few days later, the nephew of Andrew Butler attacks Sumner with a metal-tipped cane in the Senate.

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Pro-slavery “border ruffians” targeted and attack abolitionists in Kansas. Meanwhile, Jay-hawking abolitionists attempt to terrorize pro-slavery families.

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Kansas and Nebraska are allowed to vote for themselves over the issue of slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska Act brings the nation closer to civil war that ever before, as both abolition and pro-slavery groups rushed into the territory in hopes of swinging the vote.

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Northerners become infuriated that they themselves must participate in the recapturing runaway slaves. Harriet Beecher Stowe then writes a book called Uncle Tom's Cabin, and abolition grows in the North.

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California is admitted as a free state, and New Mexico and Utah are allowed to vote for themselves. Slave markets are banned in Washington, D.C., and the Fugitive Slave Act would be implemented.

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Slaves who resisted bondage through running away escaped to the North, where slavery was banned. As a result, many Southern slave owners were outraged.

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 may have saved the Union, but in the 1830’s, a new wave of anti-slavery bills flooded Congress, fueled by The Second Great Awakening. Northerners were determined to abolish slavery through politics, but Southerners stopped any conversation of slavery.

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Missouri is added as a slave state, and a new boundary is established across the remainder of the Louisiana Territory, preventing the spread of slavery to any other states north of the 36th parallel.