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The southerners are mad because they cant make a compromise for new slave territory. States Started to leave the union begin forming Confederacy.

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He only won by having only 40% of the votes in ten southern states he wasn't even on the ballot. For white southerners the election of 1860 delivered an unmistakable message.

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While Lincoln was trying to stop slavery through politics, Brown was solving it through rebellion by gathering an arsenal of weapons. Brown also with his sons chopped up people in Kansas that supported slavery.

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Douglass thought that the Dred Scott decision put the slavery issue to rest. Lincoln thought that slavery was a moral not a legal issue

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Traveled with his master to Missouri . Then they went to Wisconsin and went back to Missouri and went to court to win his freedom.

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Sumner makes a bold speech about how Kansas should be a slave state. Sumner gets beat up by Brooks and got known as a national hero for sticking up for the southern states and his family.

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Kansas government was split between slavery and anti slavery. It soon got very violent.

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Kansas and Nebraska are now states. And once again northerners were stuck with the horrors of slavery.

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Slaves that runaway and got arrested had no legal rights. People who helped them get away could also go to jail.

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Henry Clay came up with the compromise. Which he made for everybody California as a free state. The new territory's Utah and new Mexico would be able to decide what they would want to be.

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California wanted to join the union but wanted to be a free state but the south didn't want to be free they wanted it to be a slave state.

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The gag rule kept slavery issue out of congress for 10 years. They added a amendment to a bill known as the Wilmot Proviso.

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Slaves started to runaway more. Northerners started letting slaves be free and do what they want and southerners thought they were robbing them.

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Later it still stays a slave state and Maine free. Only slave states were permuted under the imaginary line.

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An agreement that Missouri becomes a slave state and Maine becomes a free state.  Also an imaginary line that no slaves shall be above.