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In the weeks following the election, talks of secession filled the air. In Illinois, A senATor named Lyman Trumbull asked President-Elect-Abraham Lincoln where he could support a compromise on slavery. Meanwhile, in Charelston, South Carolina, deleagtes attending a state convention voted that same day-December 20, 1860 to leave the Union.

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With opposition didvided three ways, Lincolnsailed to victory, but and odd victory. He won the presidental election with just 40 percent of the votes, all of them in the North. In ten Southern states, he wans't even on the ballot.

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While Lincoln faught to stp the spread of slavery through politics, abolitionist John Brown adopted a more extreme approach. Rather than wait for Congress to act, Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. An arsenal is a place where weapons and ammunition are stored. Brown wanted to arm slaves for a rebellion that would end slavery.

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A series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stepehn Douglas, who were canidates in the Illinois race for U.S.Senator, in which slavery was the main issue. During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Douglas argued that the Dred Scott decision had put the slavery issue to rest, but Lincoln disagreed in his eyes slavery was a moral, not legal issue.

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A supreme court decision in 1857 that the Missouri Compromise was unconsitiutional, in 1857 the slavery controversy shifted form Congress to the Supreme Court, which was about to a case concerning a Missouri slave named Dred Scott. Years earlier, Scott traveled with his owner to Wisconsin, where slavery was banned by the Missouri Compromise.

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The violence in Kansas greatly disturbed Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. To Sumner, it was proof of what he had long suspected-that Senator Stephen Douglas had lotted with Southerners to make Kansas a slave state.

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After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, settlers poured into Kansas. Most were peaceful farmers looking for good farmland, but some settlers moved to Kansas either to support ot oppose slavery

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An act passeed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraksa territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise, by allowig settlers to determaine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories. Northeners who were already horrified by slavery were roused to fury by two events in 1854: The publication of the so called Ostend Manifesto was a message sent to the secretary of state by 3 American dimplomats who were meeting in Ostend, Belgium.

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Under the Fugitive Slave Act, a person, arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal rights. Many runaways fled all the way to Canada rather than risk beig caught and sent back to their owners. People in the North and South were unhappy with the Fugitive Slave Act though for different reasons. Northerners did not want to enforcethe act, whereas Southerners felt tge act did not do enough to ensure the return of their escaped property.

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These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide wheather to allow slavery, outlawing the slave trade in Washington D.C., and creating a stronger fugitive slave law. On January 21, 1850, Henry Clay, now a senator from Kentucky, trudged through  a Washington snowstorm to pay a call on Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts. Clay, the creator of Missouri Compromise, had a new plan to end the deadlock over Califormia, but needed Webster's suport to grt his plan through Congress.

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For the next year, Congress debated what ot do about slavery in the territory gained from Mexico. The year ended with Congress deadlocked over California's request for statehood, once again, Southerners spoke openly of withdrawing for the Union.

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The gag rulekept the slavery issue out of Congress for 10 years, then in 1846, President James Polk sent a bill to Congress asking for funds for the war with Mexico. Pennsylvania representative David Wilmot added an amendment to the bill known as the Wilmot Proviso.

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Fugitive slaves are people who flee or try to escape for example from slavery. When a slave escaped it was like seeing their land vanish into air. Slaveholder demanded that Congress pass a law to help them recapture their "property".These fugitives

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        The Missouri Compromise Unravels 

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        The Missouri Compromise Unravels 

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A powerful force was building that sooon pushed the issue into the open again: the Second Great Awakening. Leader of this early-1800s religious revival promised that God would bless those who did the Lord's work. The "gag rule" states that no person could be born into slavery after 1842, but Congress, however, refused to consider his proposal

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The Missouri Compramise is 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. For weeks, Congress struggled to find a way out of it's deadlock over Missouri. Congress drew an imaginary line across the Louisiana Purchase at latitude 36'30' where no new slave states could be created North of this point.