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Rather than wait for Congress to act, Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown wanted to use the weapons to arm slaves for a rebellion that would end slavery.

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Lincoln's opponent in the Senate race was Senator Stephen Douglas, an Illinois senator who saw no reason why the nation could not go on half-slave and half-free.During the Lincoln - Douglas Debates , Douglas argued that the Dred Scott decision had put the slavery issue to rest, but Lincoln disagreed. In his eyes, slavery was a moral, not a legal, issue.

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Certainly, it was not about to die out in the memories of enraged Southerners. Two days after the speech, a relative of Senator Butler, South Carolina representative Preston Brooks, attacked Sumner in the Senate, beating him with his metal-tipped cane until it broke in half. By the time other senators could pull Brooks away, Sumner had collapsed, bloody and unconscious.

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The struggle over slavery soon turned violent. On May 21, 1856, pro-slavery settlers and so-called “border ruffians” from Missouri invaded Lawrence, Kansas, the home of the antislavery government. Armed invaders burned a hotel, looted several homes, and tossed the printing press of an abolitionist newspaper into the Kansas River.

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The debate over would California join the union as a free or a slave state. if the state were to join it would upset the balance between the free and slave states.

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This was the debate over whether or not the new territories in the west would become free or slave states.

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Fugitive slaves are slaves that escaped their plantation and plantation owners. once they have done this they go along the underground railroad to get to freedom, some fugitive slaves include Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglas.

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

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The Missouri Compromise permitted Missouri to the union as a slave state, and Maine as a free state. An agreement that was made by congress in 1820 under this Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state while Maine was admitted as a free state. A line. While the compromise kept the union together, it pleased very few people. In the North the congressmen who accepted Missouri as a slave state we referred to as traitors. In the South, slaveholders deeply resented the ban on slavery in states that might later become states.