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Soon talk about the country seceding spread and senators tried to find a compromise to keep the nation together. When they asked President Lincoln about a compromise regarding slavery, he said he would not let slavery extend into territories and when South Carolina heard they left the Union leading 6 other states to leave the Union as well.

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11. Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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11. Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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Lincoln soon won against Stephen Douglas for president with 40 percent of votes from the North. For Southerners, Lincoln being elected was viewed as a downside because they they feared Congress would abolish slavery.

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The Lincoln - Douglas Debates were a series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. They were both candidates for the Illinois race for U.S. Senator.

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When the slavery controversy switched from Congress to the Supreme Court they made a decision. The decision was called the Dred-Scott Decision which stated that African Americans could never become citizens of the United States and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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When Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts heard about the rivalry, he made Kansas a slave state and declared a speech which angered both the North and the South. Preston Brooks, Senator Butler's nephew, angered by Sumner's speech, beat him with his cane leaving Sumner bloody and unconscious.

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When settlers soon moved to Kansas there were some settlers who settled to support or oppose slavery. Soon enough Kansas had two governments, one fighting for slavery and the other against slavery; Things had started to become violent when pro slavery settlers damaged property causing the anti-slavery settlers to get revenge.

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When Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois introduced to Congress his idea of getting a railroad built in California it created an uproar. He suggested the Kansas-Nebraska Act to help him get a railroad in California; The Kansas-Nebraska Act created the Kansas and Nebraska territories which caused the Missouri Compromise to be abolished by letting settlers decide whether slavery should be allowed or not.

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Both people from the North and South did not agree with the Fugitive Slave Act. Slaves, if they ran away and got arrested, had almost no legal rights.

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After it took 3 years for Congress to decide the outcome of slavery, Henry Clay, the senator of Kentucky in 1850 came up with a plan. He had decided to admit California into the Union as a free state. This caused the Mexico and Utah territories to have a decision to allow slavery which would outlaw the slave trade in Washington  D.C., creating a strong fugitive slave law.

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While Southerners disagreed with the antislavery petitions, a new occurrence happened: Nat Turner, a slave, rebelled in 1831. People soon became frightened and enforced strict new laws toward slaves, but although the stricter new laws many slaves called fugitives escaped to freedom in the North.

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As the Missouri Compromise became settled, a new event occurred: The Second Great Awakening. People soon rushed to Congress to give them antislavery petitions to abolish slavery.

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 is a decision the Congress made in which Missouri joined the Union as a slave state and Maine joined the Union as a free state.