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Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union. Just as Springfield, Illinois celebrated the election of its favorite son to the Presidency on November 7.

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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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On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell. He was the first president from the Republican Party.

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John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene.

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The Lincoln - Douglas Debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United State Sernator from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.

Website:http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2012/09/the-real-legacy-of-the-lincoln-douglas-debates/

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The Dred-Scott decision is a legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States.

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The violence in Kansas greatly disturbed Senator Charlie Sumner of Massachusetts. To Sumner it was proof that what he had long suspected-that Senator Stephen Douglas had plotted with Southerners to make Kansas a slave state.

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It is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraksa Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state.

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The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders

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The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. Enacted by Congress in 1793, the first Fugitive Slave Act authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight.

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Sound Smart: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | History

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The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington D.C., was abolished. Furthermore, California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah. In addition, an act was passed settling a boundry dispute between Texas and New Mexico that also established a territorial government in New Mexico.

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In 1849, California applied for the admission to the Union as a free state.However, Southern rejected. Congress deadlocked over California's request for statehood.

Website:http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/gastudiesimages/California%20Statehood%20Stamp.htm

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Fugitive slaves were slaves who left their master and traveled without authorization.Generally they tried to reach states or territories where slavery was banned, including Canada, or, until 1821, Spanish Florida.

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The Missouri Compromise is an agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.

Website:http://www.compromise-of-1850.org/missouri-compromise-1820/

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The Missouri Compromise Unravels resolved the issue by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also drew a line across the Louisiana Territory.

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What Was the Missouri Compromise? | History

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Slavery in the Territories prohibited slavery in new states north of the border of the Arkansas territory, excluding Missouri.

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Increasing political battles over slavery in mid 1800s | US History | Khan Academy

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Kim and Sal talk about increased tensions between slave and free states as new territory is added after Mexican-American War and from Compromise of 1850 (especially the Fugitive Slave Act). Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/civil-war-era/slavery-and-the-civil-war/v/start-of-the-civil-war?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=UShistory Missed the previous lesson?