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South Carolina Delegates left the Union for the Confederates, along with six other states.

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Lincoln won the presidential election with just 40 percent of the votes, all of them cast in the North. In ten Southern states, he was not even on the ballot. Congress would try to abolish slavery. And that, wrote a South Carolina newspaper, would mean “the loss of liberty, property, home, country—everything that makes life worth having.”

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In 1859, Brown launched his raid. It was an insane scheme during which many of his men were either killed or captured. Brown himself was convicted of treason and sentenced to die. On the day of his hanging, he left a note that read, “I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.”

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Dred Scott decision had put the slavery issue to rest, but Lincoln disagreed. In his eyes, slavery was a moral, not a legal, issue. He declared, “The real issue in this controversy is the sentiment of one class that looks upon the institution of slavery as a wrong, and of another class that does not look upon it as a wrong.” Lincoln lost the election.

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Sound Smart: The Lincoln-Douglass Debates | History

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Dred Scott was an Slave that was in a free-slave state and, was debated to either be a free man or still a slave. He was kept a slave because it was against the 5th Amendment and the southerners favored this.

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Preston Brooks, attacked Sumner in the Senate, beating him with his metal-tipped cane until it broke in half. By the time other senators could pull Brooks away, Sumner had collapsed, bloody and unconscious. Reactions to the attack on Sumner showed how divided the country had become.

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In the South, towns sent their young men to Kansas, and in the North, abolitionists raised money to send weapons to antislavery settlers. Before long, Kansas had two competing governments in the territory, one for slavery and one against it. The struggle over slavery soon turned violent. On May 21, 1856, proslavery settlers and so-called “border ruffians” from Missouri invaded Lawrence, Kansas, the home of the antislavery government. Armed invaders burned a hotel, looted several homes, and tossed the printing press of an abolitionist newspaper into the Kaw River.

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created two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska. It also abolished the Missouri Compromise by leaving it up to the settlers themselves to vote on whether to permit slavery in the two territories. Douglas called this policy popular sovereignty, or rule by the people.

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[1] Under the Fugitive Slave Act, a person arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal rights. [2]The Fugitive Slave Act also said that any person who helped a slave escape, or even refused to aid slave catchers, could be jailed.This provision, people complained, would force many Northerners to become slave catchers.[3]  Of the tens of thousands of fugitives living in the North during the 1850s, only about 300 were captured and returned to their owners during this time.

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(1) California was admitted to the Union as a free state (2) No slaves can be bought or sold at Washington D.C (3) A stronger fugitive law.

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The Compromise of 1850 Explained: US History Review

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Then, late in 1849, California applied for admission to the Union as a free state. Northerners in Congress welcomed California with open arms, but Southerners rejected California's request. Making California a free state, they warned, would upset the balance between slave and free states.

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David Wilmot added an amendment to the bill known as the WIlmot Proviso. (A proviso is a condition added to an agreement.) The Wilmot Proviso stated that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist” in any part of the territory that might be acquired from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War.

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The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act  was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. ... Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law " for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.

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The people were not happy over the Missouri Compromise and called people who voted for it "traitors".They decided on further notice ti decide if future states if they would let slaves in them.

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Missouri was passed as a slave state, and Maine was passed as a free state. Arkansas Line was also made or the Missouri Compromise line 36' 30.

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The Missouri Compromise Explained: US History Review