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11 states total seceded from the nation to form the Confederate States of America in this order: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. They were pushed to secede because of their desire to continue slavery and the realization they were the minority.

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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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Lincoln won the election of 1860 only because his oppositions was divided into 3 parts, Stephen Douglass, John C. Breckinridge, and John Bell. He had only gotten 44% of the votes and all of them were from the North, which made the South angry because it showed they no longer had any power left in Congress and the general public.

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Lincoln, then a senator, ran against Douglas in the 1856 election but eventually lost. Although he lost, Lincoln became a national figure through his debates against Douglass, where he expressed many of his views, but most importantly his views against slavery.

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The Dred-Scott Supreme Court case was a White, male slaveowner against one of his Black, male slaves, who claimed that he was supposed to be a free man now since his owner had brought him to Wisconsin, a free state, for a short time. The Supreme Court's two rulings were 1) as an African American slave, he was not, nor could be a U.S. citizen and 2) the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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The debates and arguments about the issue of slavery in Congress made the tension grow dramatically between Southerners and Northerners. These tensions sometimes grew so high that members of Congress attacked the opposing side with physical violence.

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The abolitionists and pro-slavery groups that settled in Kansas and Nebraska began to fight over land and votes so much that Kansas gained the nickname of "Bleeding Kansas". Some of the more extreme groups even resorted to measures as violent as murder and public torture/humiliation.

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In an attempt to form Kansas and Nebraska into states, the Nebraska- Kansas Act was proposed by Stephen A. Douglass, which stated that the two territories could vote if they wanted to become a free or slave state. This lead to abolitionists and pro-slavery groups flooding into the two territories in order to get votes in for their cause.

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The Fugitive Slave Act was a law made under the Compromise of 1850 which stated that all Northerners were required to participate in the capture of runaway slaves from the South. Northerners were horrified and most ended up not following this law, which irritated the South.

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The Compromise of 1850 was made in order to decide whether California, and future states, would be admitted as free or slave states. The four compromises made were 1) California would be admitted as a slave state, 2) New Mexico and Utah would be allowed to vote for themselves, 3) slave markets would be banned in Washington, D.C., and 4) The Fugitive Slave Act would be implemented. Eventually, both Utah and New Mexico decided that slavery would not be permitted.

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Because of the South's harsh treatment toward slaves, many of them decided to flee from their masters, or owners. Slaves would try to escape to the North or to Canada, and once they were there, they couldn't become slaves again.

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The Missouri Compromised first began to unravel when California applied for statehood. Because of its location, the boundary set by the Missouri Compromise ran through the middle of California, so once again the North and South had to fight over whether it would be a free or slave state.

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The Missouri Compromise fo 1820 was created to settle the issue of whether Missouri would be admitted as a free or slave state. In the end, the two most important compromises that were reached were 1) Missouri would be admitted as a slave state and 2) a new boundary would be established across the remainder of the Louisiana Territory.