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Democrats suffered a major defeat, losing seats to Republicans and a group of southern party members who opposed secession.

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The reason Lincoln ran for president was to stop slavery. He was against it and thought all should be equal.

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Lincoln said he would not change slavery in the South. However, he said it would then die out and people in the south believed their economy and way of life would be destroyed.

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20th December 1860: South Carolina secedes from the United States of America

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John Brown took over the arsenal in Harpers Ferry in hopes of starting a slave rebellion. Eleven people were killed so Brown retreated to a firehouse.

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The Lincoln Douglass Debates happened when Douglas accused Lincoln of being an abolitionist while Lincoln accused Douglas of wanting to nationalize slavery.

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The Dred Scott Decision upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.

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The congressional committee arrived in Kansas to decide which government was legitimate. Although committee members declared the election of the pro-slavery legislature to be unfair, the federal government didn't agree.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas."

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The 1852 United States presidential election was the 17th quadrennial presidential election and Democrat Franklin Pierce defeated Whig nominee General Winfield Scot.

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Antislavery literature included written prose, poetry, and lyrical verses. It was distributed primarily in the North, but some of the literature reached southern states as well.

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The Compromise of 1850 was the reason California was able to enter the Union as a free state. Because of this, the rest of the Mexican Cession was divided into two territories.

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Slavery was the abducting of Africans and bringing them to America to use them as property.

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A Short History of Slavery | 5 Minute Video

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The Fugitive Slave Act made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.