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Shortly after Abraham Lincoln was elected president Southerners or planning on leaving the Union. Meetings were compromise if there was anyway slavery could still be legal. Lincoln said no compromises would be made for slavery.

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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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In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president. All the votes that he got were from the north. This portrayed a picture that Abraham Lincoln was not pro-slavery and is soon going to end it. This made the southerners very scared, therefore not picking him as president.

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In 1859 John Brown began to think about arming slaves so they can rebell and “raid” at people. This raid did not last long because many of his men were either captured, killed or sentenced to death. But before he got persecuted he left a note spooked the Southerners and touched the Northerners.

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The Lincoln-Douglas debates were multiple debates about Abraham Lincoln, the outspoken abolitionist and Senator Stephen Douglas the Democratic Party candidate. The debates were mainly about how they had two different views about slavery and racism.

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The Dred Scott Decision was a decision a slave made after arguing that his master moved him to Wisconsin (which is a free state) for a long time making him a citizen there, and therefore making him a free man since he was living in the free state for a long period of time.

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While all the bloodshed in Kansas is going on, there has been a pretty violent war going around in Congress. The senator of Massachusetts Charles Summer stirred up some suspicion that Stephen Douglas deliberately planned Kansas to be a slave state. The suspicion that Charles Summer angered many Southerners making them burst into violence. After, Preston Brooks, South Carolina’s representative, beat Summers harshly with his cane, so harsh Summer was unconscious and bleeding!

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After the Nebraska-Kansas people that were pro-slavery and people that were abolitionists. The blend of these people created many issues, different thoughts, and conflicts making them lead to violence hence the name; “Bloodshed in Kansas”.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act got rid of the Missouri Compromise and let people in Kansas and Nebraska vote on being a free state or a slave state. A lot of people were on both sides causing this to have violence.
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The Fugitive Slave Act or the Fugitive Slave Law was a law passed by Congress in the 1850s. The laws purpose was to make sure that if a slave were to run away to free state they would not be able to be a free person.

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The Compromise of 1850 was a time of when a very harsh law was put in place, called The Fugitive Slave Act. This time was also the time when California became a free state.

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The statehood of California started in 1849, when debates were revolving about if California should be a free state or a slave state. Afterwards California was finally decided to be a free state, many people especially the Northerners were very happy because they were pro-free state and on the other hand many Southerners were not as happy.

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After the Mexican war the gag rule was established so Congress did not have to be involved with slavery issue. In 1846, the Wilmot Proviso introduced an American law to stop slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican war. This made many southerners angry and felt that Congress was being unfair.
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After knowing about Nat Turner's rebellion many slaves were encouraged run away to the North. As a result of this, slave holders felt like something was getting stolen from them, so they put a fugitive slave law to action; making the Northers to give the Southerners slaves back.
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a settlement of Missouri being slave state, and Maine being a free state. Plus, slavery was not allowed (besides Missouri) above the 36' 30' line.
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Because of Nat Turner's rebellion people in the South were very scared that abolitionist believes were going to get spread. Harsh laws were made against people that were accused of spreading theses ideas.
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