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After the election, outraged southern states start to secede from the Union. The states that seceded from the Union were known as the Confederate States of America.

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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Lincoln won the election with only 40% of the votes. His name wasn't even on the ballot on the 10 slave states. His election delivered a message, that the south was now a minority.

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John brown, instead of wait for the issue of slavery to be resolved, he took matters into his own hands. He lead a rain, and all of his men were either captured or killed.

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Stephon Douglas saw no reason why the nation couldn't keep going half slave and half free. They kept on debating, and Lincoln lost the election

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The Dred-Scott Decision was a Supreme Court decision. It stated that African Americans could never be citizens of the united states and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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Summer gave a brave speech about "The Crime Against Kansas" He was later beaten by Preston Brooks in congress.

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People moved to Kansas to either support or oppose slavery. This caused there to be two competing governments in Kansas.

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It abolished the Missouri Compromise. The question of slavery would be decided by settlers living in that area.

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Southerners saw slaves a their property, so when a northerners helped a slave escape, they saw it as steeling their property. Because of this, the fugitive slave act was passed

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The agreements that were made in order to allow California to be admitted into the union as a free state. It also created a stronger fugitive slave law.

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In the 1830's, congress was overwhelmed with tons of antislavery petitions. Instead of answering the abolitionists questions, Congress passed the "Gag Rule,"  that silenced the petitions.

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Southerners wanted the territory acquired from the Mexican war to be slave states, while the north didn't. As a compromise, southerners proposed that a line would go from the Missouri compromise line would extend all the way to the pacific, and all territory south of that line would be slave territory. The proposal was rejected, and California latter applied for admission into the union, but was deadlocked.

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The Wilmot Proviso bill was  passed when James Polk sent a request to congress asking for funds for the war with Mexico. The Wilmot Proviso stated that neither slavery or involuntary slavery should ever exist in the territory acquired from the war.

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When slaves escaped, and sympathetic northeners helped them, slave hodliers saw the northeners as criminals. They demanded that the fugitive slave law was passed in order to help them get their "proporty" back.
https://www.rebelhistory.com/political-compromises.html

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An agreement made by Congress in 1820 that admited Missouri into the Union as a slave state. It allso admitted Maine as a free state.
http://socialstudieswithasmile.com/Missouricompromise.html