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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 secede 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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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency In 1860, Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination

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john browns Ferry. john brown raids on Harper's Ferry (also known as john browns raid or The raid on Harper's Ferry) was an effort by armed abolitionist john brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

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douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate

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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. Years earlier, Scott had traveled with his owner to Wisconsin, where slavery was banned by the Missouri Compromise. When he returned to Missouri, Scott went to court to win his freedom, arguing that his stay in Wisconsin had made him a free man.

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The violence in Kansas greatly disturbed Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. To Sumner, it was proof of what he had long suspected—that Senator Stephen Douglas had plotted with Southerners to make Kansas a slave state.

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After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, settlers poured into Kansas. Most were peaceful farmers looking for good farmland, but some settlers moved to Kansas either to support or to oppose slavery. In the South, towns sent their young men to Kansas, and in the North, abolitionists raised money to send weapons to antislavery settlers. Before long, Kansas had two competing governments in the territory, one for slavery and one against it.

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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. It also abolished the Missouri Compromise by leaving it up to the settlers themselves to vote on whether to permit slavery in the two territories. Douglas called this policy popular sovereignty, or rule by the people.

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in 1849 California applied for part of the union as a free state but the southerns rejected California's request because if they let it be a free state the balance of free and slave state would be unequal and then they would put slavery to an end

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Henry clay was the creator of the Missouri compromise he had a new

plan to end the deadlock of California

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Henry clay was the creator of the Missouri compromise he had a new

plan to end the deadlock of California

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president said that they could not have slavery in the territory they acquire from mexico the southerns strongly disagreed because they said they have no right to tell slaveholders where they could take there plantation so the bill was rejected

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There where slaves that escaped to the north and people helped the slaves  the southerns said that they where no better than bank robbers

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As John Quincy Adams predicted, for a time the “contest” over slavery was settled. However, a powerful force was building that soon pushed the issue into the open again: the Second Great Awakening. Leaders of this early-1800s religious revival promised that God would bless those who did the Lord's work. For some Americans, the Lord's work was the abolition of slavery.

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An agreement made by congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state