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Wasn't going to interfere with slavery in the South. Down in the South Carolina delegates voted to leave the union.

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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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Lincoln won the presidential with just 40% of votes, all of them cast in the north serious in 10 southern states, he was not even on the ballot.

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Rather than wait for congress to act, Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

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A series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for US Senator in which slavery was the main issue.

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A supreme court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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Two days after the speech a relative of senator Butlers, South Carolina Representative 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 off of him, he had already collapsed, bloody and unconscious.

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After the Kansas- Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, settlers poured into Kansas. Most were peaceful farmers looking for good farmland, but some settlers moved to Kansas either to support oppose slavery.

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An act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories.

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The Fugitive slave act stated that any person who helped a slave escape, or even refused to to aid slave catchers, could be jailed. This provision, people complained, would force many northerners to become slave catchers.

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The agreements made in order to admit California into the union as a free state. These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories whether to allow slavery, outlawing the slave trade in Washington DC and creating a stronger fugitive slave trade

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As a compromise, southerners proposed a bill that would extend the Missouri Compromise line all the way down to the Pacific. Slavery would be banned north of that line and allowed south of it. Northerners in congress rejected this proposal

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The gag rule kept the slavery issue out of congress for 10 years. Then in 1846, President James K Polk sent a bill to congress asking for funds for the war with mexico.

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Nat Turner's Rebellion was one of the largest slave revolts. Individual slaves began running away to the north only for freedom. During this time the fugitive slaves were helped in their escapes by sympathetic northerners. To the southern slaveholders, northerners were like bank robbers because they thought of them as stealing their slaves. every time a slave escaped it was like a small piece of their land vanished. slaveholders demanded that congress add a fugitive slave law.

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A powerful force was building that soon pushed the issue into the open again: the second great awakening. leader of this early 1800's religious revival promised that God would bless those who did the lords work. the "gag rule"  states that no person could be born into slavery after 1842, but congress, however, refused to consider the proposal.

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The Missouri Compromise was an agreement made by congress in 1820. In this agreement Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state  while Maine was admitted as a free state. This compromise kept both the north and the south happy because they both inherited states. (3630 line means that no new states could be formed north of that, only to the south)