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Shortly after Lincoln won presidency, southern states feared that slavery would be abolished in the U.S. so many states wanted to secede, until the first state, South Carolina decided to secede from the Union and shortly after many more followed to form the confederacy.

Source: www.thomaslegion.net

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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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Abraham Lincoln won election against three different man with just 40% of the votes, all of them in the north.  This caused southerners to fear that Congress would try to abolish slavery because Lincoln spoke a lot about trying to abolish it.

Source: www.scholastic.net

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An abolitionist named John Brown believed that solving the practice of slavery through politics was not the way to end it. He believed that the only way to end slavery was through violence and an extreme approach. He  planned to see is the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. This arsenal was a place where weapons and ammunition were stored and brown wanted to use the weapons to arms slaves for a rebellion that would end slavery.

Source: www.washingtonpost.net

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Stephan A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln were running for presidency and had very different points of view. Southerners supported Douglas because of his belief that slavery was not an issue, and Northerners supported Lincoln because of his belief that slavery should be abolished in the United States.

Source: www.stanfordfreedomproject.com

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Dred Scott was an African-American man who fought for his freedom in Missouri and believed that by living in Wisconsin it had made him a free man, and it was not fair to be brought back to slavery. He believed that it was his right to stay a free man and not have to go back.

Source: www.pbs.org

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There was much violence going on at this time between anti and pro slavery people because of disagreement. it got so bad that even South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks beat Sumner with a cane. This showed how divided the two sides were.

Source: www.smithsonianmag.com

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There were many people that were not OK with the two sides of slavery living in Kansas. Many things got destroyed by proslavery people soon after such as abolitionist homes, valuables, and even a hotel.

Source: www.nps.gov

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A senator named Stephen A. Douglas Introduced a bill in Congress to get a railroad built to California. Douglas’s final version of the bill, known as the Kansas Nebraska Act,  created two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska. This Abolished the Missouri compromise by leaving it up to the settlers to vote on whether to permit slavery in the two territories. This policy was called popular sovereignty or rule by the people.

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An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas

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Kansas-Nebraska Act, in the antebellum period of U.S. history, critical national policy change concerning the expansion of slavery into the territories, affirming the concept of popular sovereignty over congressional edict. In 1820 the Missouri Compromise had excluded slavery from that part of the Louisiana Purchase (except Missouri) north of the 36°30′ parallel. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Stephen A. Douglas, provided for the territorial organization of Kansas and Nebraska under the principle of popular sovereignty, which had been applied to New Mexico and Utah in the Compromise of 1850. Pres. Franklin Pierce signed An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas into law on May 30, 1854.

Written in an effort to arrest the escalating sectional controversy over the extension of slavery, the Kansas-Nebraska Act ironically fanned the flame of national division. It was attacked by free-soil and antislavery factions as a capitulation to the proponents of slavery. Passage of the act was followed by the establishment of the Republican Party as a viable political organization opposed to the expansion of slavery into the territories. In the Kansas Territory a migration of proslavery and antislavery factions, seeking to win control for their respective institutions, resulted in a period of political chaos and bloodshed. See Bleeding Kansas.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Alicja Zelazko.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act | Definition, History, Outcome, & Facts

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Kansas-Nebraska Act, in the antebellum period of U.S. history, critical national policy change concerning the expansion of slavery into the territories, affirming the concept of popular sovereignty over congressional edict. It was signed into law by President Franklin Pierce in 1854. Read about its history.

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Both people in the north and the south were unhappy with the fugitive slave act for very different reasons.  Northerners didn’t supported because they did Not want to return the slaves to their slave owners and if they did not return the slaves they were punished for it. The s not want to return the slaves to their slave owners and if they did not return the slaves they were punished for it. The  southerners didn’t like the fugitive slave act because it didn’t ensure that  people would return their slaves to their property.

Source: www.Purehistory.org

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In the compromise of 1850, a man named Henry Clay had a plan to please the Nothern and Southern states with his new compromise, and it began by admitting California to the union as a free state. By doing this it would allow New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, and this would please the South and the North states.  Also Henry Clay’s plan and the slave trade in Washington DC, which  would allow slaveholders to keep their slaves but human beings were no longer be bought and sold in the nations capital.  So to compromise with the South Clay made a plan for a stronger fugitive slave law which would  make it easier to find and reclaim runaway slaves.

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Sound Smart: Compromise of 1850 | History

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After the United States gain territory from Mexico, Congress debated over what to do about slavery in the territories for the next three years. So as a compromise the Southerners proposed  A bill of that would extend the Missouri compromise line all the way to the Pacific.  That way everything north of the line was a free state and everything south was a slave state. Since California came between, there was debate over whether it should be a free or slave state

Source: www.courses.missouristate.edu

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Although the gag rule helped keep the issue of slavery out of Congress for 10 years, after war with Mexico, David Wilmot announced there should not be acts of slavery in the new states.

Source: www.thomaslegion.net

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Fugitive Slaves  were slaves that escaped from their slave owners and were helped by people in the North. Southerners believed that slaves were still property and demanded congress to pass a law allowing them to take fugitive slaves.

Source: www.freedmenspatrol.wordpress.co

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The "gag rule" was to silence all antislavery petitions and it was called the "gag rule" because it gagged all congressional debate over slavery. Also in the south, states adopted new laws to control  the movement of slavery, after Nat Turner's Rebellion caused there to be fear in the south of abolition.

Source: www.gilderlehrman.org

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The Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, this balanced the amount of power between the free and slave states.

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 (APUSH Review - Period 4)