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In the weeks following the election, talk of secession filled the air. The senate committee held its first meeting on  December 20, 1860.

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Abraham Lincoln is elected as president 

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Abraham Lincoln is elected as president 

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With his opposition divided three ways, Lincoln sailed to victory. he won with 40% of votes, all of them cast in the north.

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John Brown adopted a more extreme approach. rather than wait for congress to act, Brown planned to  seize the federal arsenal at Harper 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 U.S. senators, 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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Violence in Kansas greatly distributed. in 1856, Sumner voiced his suspicion in a passionate speech.two days after the speech there was an attack, reactions to the attack on Sumner showed how divided the country had become.

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After the Kansas- Nebraska Act was passed in 1854 settlers poured into Kansas some settlers supported slavery others didn't settlers for slavery became violent

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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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A person who flees or tries to escape. A person arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal rights. Any person who helped a slave escape could be jailed.

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January 21, 1850 the agreement made in order to admit California into the union as a free state. These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the slave trade in Washington D.C. and creating a strong fugitive slave law.

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They applied to the union. Northerners accepted but southerns did not. They claimed that it would be unequal

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They stated that slavery nor involuntary servitude should ever exist.

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They revolted and tried to head north, sympathetic people helped them to the north. Slave holders demanded they make a fugitive slave law to help the recapture their property

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The second great awakening caused a religious revival that blessed people who did good work and for some gods work was abolishing slavery

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An agreement made by congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. it also created an imaginary line in which any future state north of this line would be a free state and south of the line would be a slave state.