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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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14. Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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14. Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination. In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party

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Brown traveled to Kansas with five of his sons to fight against the pro slavery forces in the contest over that territory. On May 21, 1856, pro slavery men raided the abolitionist town of Lawrence, and Brown personally sought revenge.

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Douglas and Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois state election campaign as among the most significant statements in American political history.

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The Dred Scott decision was the culmination of the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, one of the most controversial events preceding the Civil War.

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Congress men actually fought each other wanting their way if they were a republican or democrats fire arms were in the hands of the men also.

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Though most blacks and abolitionists strongly opposed the Compromise, the majority of Americans embraced it, believing that it offered a final, workable solution to the slavery question.

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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.

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Abolitionists nicknamed it the "BloodhoundLaw" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.

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the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.

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Californians sought statehood and, after heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free, non slavery state

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Allowed a group of white men born in the U.S to let slavery be decide it be ok or not ok to allow slavery

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Run away slaves
Left without permission from their masters tried to reach states that banned slavery

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Southerners worried that if Congress banned slavery in Missouri, it would try to end slavery elsewhere.

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In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states