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Weeks after the election the south announced that they would secede from the union. When congress tried to come up with another compromise Lincoln wouldn't allow it, as he simply refused to interfere with slavery.

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11. Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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11. Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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In 1860 Abraham Lincoln finally won the presidential election. Though worry struck in the south, as Lincoln was not even on most voting poles, and realization that they have become minority caused panic.

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During the presidential debate between Lincoln and Douglass, Lincoln made statements about abolishing slavery. Though Lincoln lost the debates he became a national figure.

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Dred Scott was a slave who took his owner to court after visiting a free state, claiming he was a free man. The entire nation was shocked at the outcome, court ruling decided that Scott could not sue his owner because as a slave he was not a citizen.

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Charles Sumner realized what was going on in Kansas, and predicted that Senator Stephan Douglass had plotted with southerners to make Kansas a free state. After the union heard about Sumner's speeches about Douglass, Sumner was physically attacked by Senator Butler's nephew.

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In Kansas governments formed for pro and anti-slavery leaders, and the citizens started to turn violent. Many attacks were made on abolitionists and soon congress would join in on the fighting.

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The Nebraska-Kansas Act admitted Nebraska and Kansas as new states in the union. The act avoided the Missouri compromise by letting the states decide whether they are slave or free by themselves.

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The fugitive slave act was put forward to help catch and return runaway slaves. It stated that any northerners that came in contact with a runaway slave must return them to their owner, this made northerners and southerners unhappy for their own reasons.

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Henry Clay, a senator from Kentucky, went to Washington to bring a possible solution to the table over western states. Knowing that he had to please everyone, Clay came up with a compromise that would admit California as a free state, and allow New Mexico and Utah to become slave states if they wanted to. This compromise pleased most people, but some southerners were still weary, and had started to think about leaving the union.

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Even after large scale slave rebellions, like Nat Turners, slaves continued to individually break free and make their way north. Many northerners helped these slaves, and because of this commotion in the south, congress made it illegal for northerners to help runaway slaves.

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After the second great awakening the north, once again, started a large movement to abolish slavery in the south.

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In fear that the union would split, congress created a compromise to admit Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state