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With Lincoln as president, citizens buzzed and gossiped about what would happen, as soon something did. After some time, Lincoln announced that their would be no compromise and slavery would once and for all be abolished.

Source: Secession
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/secession

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With the south as the minority of the U.S., Lincon won the presidental with an odd forty percent of the votes. People now knew there would be more of a press in abolishing slavery.

Source: Abrahan Lincon
https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/abraham-lincoln

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Instead of using a less violet approach to end slavery, John Brown resorted to weapons. Brown and his team attempted to raid an arsenal to gain access to weapons to go towards the fight against slavery. The team was unsuccessful and all died during the attempted raid while brown was sentenced to die.

Source: John Brown's Harpers Ferry
https://www.history.com/topics/john-brown

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Stephen A. Douglas was running against Abraham Lincoln for senate and he believed slavery was not an issue. He not only tolerated the split of slavery in the country but encouraged it.

Source: Stephen A. Douglas
https://www.history.com/topics/lincoln-douglas-debates

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Dred Scott was an african american man who fought for his freedom in Missouri and said that his stay in Wisconson had made him a free man and that should not be brought back to slavery

Source: The Dread Scott Case
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/dred-scott-case

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The ongoing conflicts between the north and south had grown so tense that a relative of a senator beat, almost to death, a northern man. In the process of witch he broke his cane, other southerners respond by sending him a new cane to replaced the one used to harm a man.

Source: In The Congressional Fight Over Slavery, Doctorium went Out The Door
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tempers-ran-so-hot-congress-one-senator-was-nearly-beaten-death-180962111/

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Many were not okay with the two sides of slavery living in one place, Kansas. Soon, Proslavery settlers from Missouri raided abolitionist homes, destroyed valuables such as two printing presses, and burned down a hotel.

Source: Bleeding Kansas: Sparks of War

https://www.nps.gov/fosc/learn/education/classrooms/bklesson.htm

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Two states were soon added to the growing country of the United States. in these states it was up to the citizens of the states to decide what kind of state this would be, this make the northerners horrified.

Source: Kansas Nebraska Act
https://www.history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska-act

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Slave Hunters we out and trying to find runaway slaves after The Fugitive Act was passed. Slaves who tried to escape were given little to no rights

Source: Effects of the Fugitive Slave Law
http://www.eonimages.com/media/61d0e6f4-3e18-11e0-adec-cfa62658bdfe-effects-of-the-fugitive-slave-law-cartoon

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One man changed many things about slavery in The Compromise of 1850, his name was Henry Clay. Clay realized the only was he could make California a free state he would have to make everyone happy at the same time. New Mexico and Utah would be able to decide themselves if they should be a slave or free state. Slave trade was also banned from Washington D.C., Slaveholders didn't have to give up their slaves though.

Source: Slave Trade
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery/pictures/slave-trade/slave-block-in-fredericksburg

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Because of the gag rule congress had not mention the expansion or the discontinue of slavery in new states for ten years. Until the Mexican-American War was brought to their attention, David Wilmot announced there should not be acts of slavery in the new states

Source: The Battle Over Slavery

history.com

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The Mexican- American War sparked a new conversation, weather new states would be slave states or free. Ideas were tossed back and forth with northern and southern members of congress.

Source: 9 Things you May Not Know About California
https://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-california

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Slaves turned to fugitives as they escaped the south with much help from abolitionist northerners.

Source: Fugitive Slave Acts History.com

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The Gag Rule was a rule that congress made to in summery, ignore all petitions made to take a step towards the end of slavery.

Source: Could Compromise Have Prevented the Civil War? History.com

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The Missouri Compromise was a balance of power between the slave states and free states. Maine wanted to become a free state so the congress admitted it as one but admitted Missouri as a slave state.

Source: The Missouri Compromise oercommons.org