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It first started with South Carolina wanting to leave the Union on December 20, 1861. Then, 6 others states left the Union in Feburary of 1861. These states joined together and created the Confederate States of America. http://www.ushistory.org/us/images/00000525.jpg

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The presential election split the country in half. Many Northerners were on Abraham Lincoln's side, meanwhile the South was all messed up. In 10 of the states Lincoln was not on the ballot. People in the south, never voted for Abraham they belived that he was going to abolish slavery. Later Abraham won the election with 40% of the votes.https://civilwarinvirginia.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/abrahamlincoln1.jpg

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Lincoln wanted to spot the spread of slavery through politics, but John Brown wanted to make  a more extreme approach. Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA. Brown wanted to use the weapons to arm slaves for a rebellion that would end slavery. He was convicted of treason and sentenced to death by hanging. https://img.haikudeck.com/mg/17408366-C5CE-48F5-91EE-47254967EBB3.jpg

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In the arguement between Douglas and Lincoln's dedate over the Dred Scott decision, Licoln lost the election. With his speech and opinion given it makes him a national figure which helps him win president the next election. It also made people think a lot more about the problem of slavery.http://slideplayer.com/slide/3809183/13/images/30/Lincoln-Douglas+Debates+(1858).jpg

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The Supreme Court ruled that Scott could not sue for his freedom in a federal court because no African-American was an American citizen. The court said that Scott's stay in Wisconsin did not make him a free man. http://sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Dred-Scott-Decision-1857-synopsis.jpg

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Preston Brooks, SC representative, attacked senator Sumner for Sumner's speech over the raid on Lawrence, Kansas. Many Southerners applauded for Brooks's action because he was defending his family in the South.https://image.slidesharecdn.com/keyeventsleadingtocivilwar-100602080051-phpapp01/95/key-events-leading-to-the-civil-war-19-728.jpg?cb=1275465755

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On May, 21, 1856 proslavery settlers attacked Lawrence, Kansas the home of anti-slavery government. Later, a man named John Brown plotted his own revenge on their actions and attacked 5 men who were supporting slavery and chopped them into pieces.http://slideplayer.com/slide/4051679/13/images/21/Bleeding+Kansas+In+May+1856,+800+slavery+supporters+attacked+the+town+of+Lawrence,+the+antislavery+capital..jpg

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Senator, Stephen Douglas introduced a bill that would divide the land west of Missouri into 2 territories, Kansas and Nebraska. This made the Missouri Compromise line vanish and be no longer applied to the people. He also argued for populary sovereignty meaning that he wanted people who settled in those territories to decide whether they want slaves.https://image.slidesharecdn.com/1850s-roadtosecession-110105065131-phpapp01/95/1850s-road-to-secession-25-728.jpg?cb=1294210321

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On January 20, 1850 Henry Clay, KY senator, had came up with another compromise to help with all of the disputes. This compromise was made after California wanted to join the Union. This is the results of the compromise: they admitted CA as a free state, they let Utah and NM territories decide if they wante slaves, it ended slave trade in Washington DC, but slaverholders could still keep the slaves that they have, and it also included a strong fugitive slave law which captured runaway slaves.

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Sound Smart: Compromise of 1850 | History

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In 1849, CA applied to the Union as a free state. Many northerners in Congress welcomed CA, but many Southerners denied this request. By adding CA to the Union as a free state it would mess up how the balance of free and slave states within the government.http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/22491/images/ca_seal_1849.jpg

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A PA representative named David Wilmot added an amendment to a bill known as the Wilmot Proviso. This was an agreement saying that no slavery shall be contained in any part of the land  called as a result from the Mexican-American war. The Congress had no right to stating wheather certain states should have slaves or not according to many Southerners.https://barbadosfreepress.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/washington_slavery.jpg

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Fugitive slaves are slaves that have fleed or tried to escape from something and these slaves were helped by sympathetic people in the north. Southerners belived that people in the North that helped people escape were like bank robbers stealing the Southerners property. https://canadaalive.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/runaway-slaves-on-underground-railroad.jpg

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Abolitionist were unhappy about the passing of the MIssouri Comprimise and many Northerners bombared Congress with Antislavery petitions, but they were told that Congress had no power to change to slavery in states. Congress voted in 1836 to silence the petitions of antislavery.This was called the 'gag rule'.https://www.awesomestories.com/images/user/aaedb349b5.jpg

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The Fugative Slave Act was part of the Comprimise of 1850. This was to return any of the slaves that had escaped to the Morth and return them to their owner. If a person was helping a slave, then they could potentially get jailed.

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The Missouri Compromise was an agreement made by Congress in 1820 to make the slave and free states equal. This made Missouri admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was added as a free state. They also drew an imaginary line at 36 deg.30' to ban slavery north of that line forever except Missouri.https://image.slidesharecdn.com/eventsleadinguptothecivilwar-111205220532-phpapp02/95/events-leading-up-to-the-civil-war-3-728.jpg?cb=1323123516