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South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the Confederacy was formed. Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union.

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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, Breckenridge, and Bell. Lincoln was the first president from the Republican Party.

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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.

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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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Legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820) was unconstitutional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j3lKSs2ZoA

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Two days after the speech of Charles Sumner, South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks , attacked Sumner.

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After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed settlers poured in and before long Kansas had two competing governments, one for and one against slavery. And things began to get ugly.

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People in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska could decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.

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A person arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal rights, it also said that any person who helped a slave escape, or even refused to aid slave catchers, could be jailed.

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Admitted California as a free state and allowed the southwestern territories to be set up without restriction on slavery.

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The North and South debated back and forth trying to decide what to do about slavery territories in California.

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The Wilmot Proviso didn't want slavery to exist and the gag rule kept the slavery issue out of congress for 10 years. But southerners began to oppose the Wilmot Proviso.

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A person who flees or tries to escape (for example, from slavery).

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Abolitionists wanted to stop slavery in Washington D.C., but Congress
refused to consider anti-slavery petitions.

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The Missouri Compromise is an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between the free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.