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After the loss of the election, the South had secession on their minds. After Lincoln stated that slavery and the Fugitive Slave Act would not be interfered with but there would be no slavery in new territories, the South seceded and the country split in half.

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Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 and was elected president.This was a tragic loss for the South, the south no longer had any power and was in the minority.

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Abraham Lincoln was a more peaceful man, John Brown was quite the opposite. John Brown raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia and tried to arm slaves for a rebellion, but the raid went horribly wrong and John Brown and his men were captured or killed.

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Lincoln and Douglas went through a series of debates where they argued about slavery. Douglas argued that the Dred Scott Decision finalized what was going to happen with slavery but Lincoln argued about how slavery was not a legal problem, but a moral problem.

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Dred Scott, a slave who traveled with his owner to Wisconsin where slavery is banned. Dred Scott argued that his time in Wisconsin made him a free man but the court was convinced otherwise and slavery was going to be allowed in all territories.

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Senator Charles Sumner had quite a lot to say about the South's attack in Kansas, he made a very vulgar speech targeting Southerners. The nephew of one of the Southerners Sumner spoke so rashly of attacked Sumner with a cane in congress.

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2 groups of people went to Kansas, one pro-slavery and the other anti-slavery. They strongly disagreed with each other's beliefs and soon violence broke out, causing looting, arson, vandalism, and murder.

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The act added 2 new states, Kansas and Nebraska. These states could have the choice to either be a slave state or a free state.

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Not all of the North wanted the slaves to be returned to their cruel, hard labor. The South felt that the law didn't ensure their properties' return.

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Henry Clay, a senator from Kentucky, made a plan where everybody wins. The slave trade is made illegal in Washington D.C. but slaveholders could still keep their slaves. California is added to the Union as a free state and it allowed New Mexico and Utah to decide whether to allow slavery. Lastly, a strong fugitive slave law was to be placed.

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When California wanted to join the Union and become a free state, Northerners were happy to welcome them but Southerners, not so much. The South threatened to secede from the Union if California was added as a free state.

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Slavery was kept out of Congress for 10 years. However, David Wilmot made the Wilmot Proviso which stated that involuntary servitude and slavery will not exist in any territory gained from the Mexican-American War, the amendment passed the house but was rejected by the senate.

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Slaves who escaped slavery were fugitives and they could be reclaimed by their masters. The slaves' owners could legally take their slaves back due to the slaves being property.

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Since the congress were getting so many petitions of slavery, they made the "gag rule". With this rule, abolition was not to be spoken of in congress. (History Alive!)

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In order to keep the balance between free states and slave states, Missouri was added to the south as a slave state and Maine was added as a free state.  With this compromise, everyone was happy.