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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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In 1857, the slavery controversy shifted from Congress to the Supreme Court, which was about to decide a case concerning  a Missouri slave named Dred Scott.

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The violence in Kansas greatly disturbed Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts.

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After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, settlers poured into Kansas.

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Douglas's final version of the bill. Known as the Kansas-Nebraska Act, was passed in 1854 and created two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska.

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People in the North and the South were unhappy with the Fugitive Slave Act, though for different reasons.

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On January 21, 1850, Henry Clay, now a senator from Kentucky, trudged through a Washington snowstorm to pay a call on Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts.

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For the next three years, Congress debated what to do about slavery in the territory gained from Mexico.

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The gag rule kept the slavery issue out of Congress for the ten years.

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Nat Turner's rebellion was one of the largest slave revolts, but individual slaves also continued to rebel by running away to freedom in the North.

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As John Quincy Adams predicted, for a time the "contest" over slavery was settled.

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When congress returned to Washington in 1820, it took up the question of Missouri statehood once again.