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He would not interfere with slavery in the south, and he would support enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.

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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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No longer had power to shape national events or policies, and southerners feared that, sooner or later, Congress would try to abolish slavery.

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Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia

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Douglass argued that the Dred Scott decision had put the slavery issue to rest, but Lincoln disagreed

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Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the U.S. and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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South Carolina representative President Brooks, attacked Sumner in the senate, beating him until his ca broke in half.

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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.

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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

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Southerners felt the act did not do enough to ensure the return of their escaped property.

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Clay, the creator of the Missouri Compromise, had a new plan to end the deadlock over California, but he needed Webster's support to get his plan through Congress.

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Southerners proposed a bill that would extend the Missouri Compromise line all the way to the pacific.

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President James Polk sent a bill to congress asking for funds for the war with Mexico.

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The Fugitives from slavery were often helped in their escape by sympathetic people in the north.

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The people stopped talking about slavery to try to make the comprise fix the problem.

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In 1820 Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.