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After weeks following the election the congress was looking for another compromise to maybe keep the country together. They knew that finding another compromise would not be an easy idea. One day a reporter in Illinois reported asking Lincoln if he would agree with another compromise on slavery. he's Answer was "Let there be no compromise".

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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 sailed to victory and won the election by only forty percent of the votes which all came from the North. In ten southern states he was not even "on the ballet" and to some southerners the election delivered an unmistakable message.

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Abolitionist, John Brown was tired of sitting around and waiting for congress to make a move. Instead he made an army of his own. He seized the federal arsenal which was a place to hold weapons. He wanted to arm all slaves with weapons so that they could resell against the slaveholders and stop slavery. His plan alter failed and him and the rest of his army either got killed or got caught.

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Lincoln- Douglas Debates was a series id political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas,l who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S senator, in which slavery was the main issue. During the debate Douglas argued that the Dred stock decision had put slavery to rest. Lincoln disagreed and declared the the real issue is the sentiment of one class group that looks upon the institution of slavery as wrong. Lincoln later lost the election.

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A supreme court decision that held that African Americans can never be citizens of the United States. Scott had tavekeb with his owner to Wisconsin where slavery was banned by the Missouri Compromise. When he returned to Missouri, he went to court to fight for his rights to become a free slave.

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Stephen Douglas plotted with Southerners to make Kansas a free state, Sumner made many speeches about how slavery is has an awful impact and is harmful. Later Preston Brookes attacked Sumner to his last breath.

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After the Kansas-Nebraska act was passed many moved to Kansas. Some were innocent farmers looking for a land to farm and others were either pro slavery or anti slavery. Things quickly took a turn when one day armed settlers looted Lawrence, the home of antislavery. Soon after John Brown plotted his own revenge. A couple days after Lawrence raid. Brown and a couple of his other followers dragged five men they suspected of supporting slavery and hacked them to death with swords.

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The Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and destroyed the Missouri Comprise by allowing settlers to decide whether sleavery should be allowed in new territories. Douglas called this act "rule by people". This act once again haunted the vision of Northerners on slave labor. Douglas tried to calm their fear by saying that the climate is not suited for slave labor. Once citizens started studying maps they realized that may not be the case.

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The Fugitive slave act was passed as the part of Compromise of 1850. Under this act, a person arrested as a runway slave had almost no legal rights. This Fugitive Slave Act also said that any person who helped s slave escape, or even refused to aid slave catchers, could be jailed.

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The agreement made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state. These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah Territories to decide whether to allow slavery fun Washington DC, and creating a stronger fugitive slave law. The compromise admitted California as a free state and allowed the southwestern territories to be set up without restrictions on slavery.

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For the next couple of years Congress worried whether the land owned from the Mexicans should become a slave state or a free state. Southerners then proposed a Bill stating that the Missouri Compromise would be extended and to the South slavery would be legal and to the North, slavery would be banned.

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in 1846 president James Polk sent a bill to congress asking for funds for the Mexican-American war. Then, representative of Pennsylvania David Wilmot added an amendment to the constitution stating that slavery shouldn't;t exist. The Wilmot Proviso passed the House, but later rejected by the senate.

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During Nat Turners rebellion, many slaves continued to rebel by running away to freedom in the North. These fugitives from slavery were often helped escape by symptomatic people in the North. Slaveholders often saw this as a bank robbery. They saw a slave as a valuable piece of property. Every time a slave escaped it was like seeing their property vanish into thin air.

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leaders of religious revival of 1820s and 1830s promised that god who did the Lords work. In that case the Lord's work was the abolition of slavery.

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an agreement made by congress in 1820 which Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state and main was admitted as a free state. For weeks, Congress struggles to find a way out of its deadlock over Missouri.