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In the weeks following the election talk of seccesion filled the air. The senates wanted to make a compromise to keep the U.S in tact but it would be a very hard compromise. But even then on December 20, 1860 South Carolina seceded from the Union and 6 other Southern states followed

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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 being elected president struck fear in the hearts of the Southerners. Abraham Lincoln being an abolitionist it meant that the no longer had the power to shape national events or policies.

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John Brown decided to raid the federal arsenal so he could arm slaves for a rebellion. But during this raid they were caught and sentenced to death. 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 can never be purged away but with blood'. This uneased the southerners because of their was a slave rebellion southern blood would be spilledb

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The Lincoln-Douglas Debate was a series of political debates with the main topic being Slavery, Lincoln being anti-slavery and Douglas being anti-slavery

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The Dred-Scott decision was the decision that didn't allow African American's to become American Citizens and deemed the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.

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Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts made a speech known as the, "Crime against Kansas". He used harsh language against Senate Stephen Douglas. Because of this speech unconscious by one of Douglas's nephews with a metal cane.

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Because of the Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854, Kansas was split into two between abolitionists and pro-slavery groups. This sparked blood shed between groups like the Lawrence raid and John Brown's murder of people who he suspected to be slavery supporters.

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The Nebraska-Kansas Act was passed in 1854 creating the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolishing the Missouri compromise by allowing settlers to choose whether to allow slavery or not.

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The fugitive slave act made it so runaway slaves had practically no rights and those who aided or did not choose to help slave catchers could be jailed. This was not taken well in the north as slave catchers were constantly insulted.

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For the next three years the Congress debated on what to do about slavery in the new territory acquired. Southerners wanted all of it to be slave states but the Northerners wanted slavery to be off limits. So when California wanted to enter as a free state Northerners accepted, but Southerners declined saying this would offset the balance.

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During the Mexican-American war, David Wilmot Created an Amendment stating that neither slavery or involuntary servitude shall ever exist, in part of the territory acquired from the Mexican-American War.

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After the Nat Turner rebellion many other slaves rebelled by running away to the North. They were then helped by the Northerners whom the Southerners thought as robbers.

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The Compromise of 1850 was the agreement to let California enter the U.S as a free state. But New Mexico and Utah territory can choose whether they went to be free or slave state.

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Their was peace for a little bit after the compromise but soon after a riot began led by Nat Turner. This caused the South to make stricter laws on blacks.

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The Missouri compromise of 1820 was caused to balance the power in congress between free and slave states. To prevent civil war between the North and the South they agreed to let Missouri enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state.