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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 Seceded 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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Lincoln won by the Northerners voting for him because the North had the majority. For the South he wasn't even on the ballet.

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Rather than wait for congress to act, Brown planned to seize the Federal weapons and ammunition, he wanted to arm slaves for a rebellion to end slavery. (1859) He was convicted of treason and was hanged.

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A series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main issue.

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Dred Scott went to court to fight for his freedom, because of his stay in Wisconsin which was banned from slavery. In the end slavery was allowed in all territories, this made the southerners very happy.

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Brooks beat Sumner with his metal cane until it broke, it took Sumner over three years to recover. Brooks beat him because of the speech that he gave against slavery.

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On May 21,1856 Pro-slavery went to Lawrence and destroyed stuff and throw printers in to the rivers. Then the Anti- slavery went to Pottawatomie and burned and destroyed things then killed 5 men because they were pro-slavery.

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Two new territories were made Kansas and Nebraska and let them choose to be a slave or free state. Which went against the Missouri Compromise.

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It was a law passed by Congress in 1793 and 1850 (and repealed in 1864) that provided for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a federal territory.

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The agreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state.
1.) California was a free state. 2.) New Mexico and Utah territories could decide to be slave or free states. 3.)Ended slave trade in Washington dc. but people could still keep their slaves and they could also buy slaves outside of Washington and then bring them to dc. 4.)They called for the passage of a strong fugitive slave law.

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Southerners proposed a bill that would extend the line all the way to the pacific. Northerners rejected it in congress. In late 1849 California applied for admission to the union as a free state. Northerners wanted that to happen but southerners said it would upset the balance of free and slave states.

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The bill called the Wilmot Proviso stated that neither slavery or involuntary servitude shall never exist. This made the southerners mad, it passed in the house but was rejected in the senate.

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Slaves were often helped by northerners who wanted to help end slavery. Then the northerners demanded that congress pass a fugitive slave law.

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The Missouri Compromise started to unravel when abolitionists started to fight for slaves freedom across the imaginary line that was made. This did not make southerns happy.

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In the Missouri Compromise:
1. Missouri was added as a slave state. 2. Maine was added as a free state. 3. There was an imaginary line drawn at 36 30 every state north had to be a free state, all states south had to be slave.