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Secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the American Civil War, comprises the series of events that began on Dec.20,1860, and extended through June 8 of the next year when eleven states in the Lower and Upper South severed their ties with the Union.

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On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckenridge, and Bell.

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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 Ferry, Virginia.

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were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.

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Standford, 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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such was the case in 1798 when Roger Gris wold, a Federalist Congressman from Connecticut got into a heated debate with Matthew Lyon, a Vermont Democratic-Republican. Gris wold made the mistake of calling Lyon a scoundrel . Lyon then spit in Gris wold's face and there was no stopping the ensuing melee. Neither Gris wold or Lyon believed in the proverb, "forgive and forget". A few weeks later, Gris wold attacked Lyon on the Senate floor with a cane and then Lyon went after him with a pair of fire tongs.

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the Border War was a series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of kansas.

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Sound Smart: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 | History

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It allowed people in Nebraska and Kansas to decide if the want to be a slave state or not.

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was passed by the United States Congress on Sept. 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-spoilers.

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the Fugitive slave act was amended and the slave trade in D.C., was abolished.

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It came the 31st state on sept.9.1850

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

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They are slaves that run away from their master.

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slavery was was only permitted on the south of the line.

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Admitting that Missouri as a slave state.