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The force of events moved very quickly upon the election of Lincoln. South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the Confederacy was formed. Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union.

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Abraham Lincoln is elected as president 

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Abraham Lincoln is elected as president 

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Elected as the sixteenth president and the first republican to be president beating Douglass,Breckenridge, and bell.

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John brown initiated a slave revolt attacking a u.s. arsenal arming slaves for a revolt.

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A series of seven debates between Lincoln the republican candidate from Illinois and Douglass the democratic candidate

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That a slave Dred Scott who had resided in a free state and territory where slavery was prohibited was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States.

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Sumner calls Douglass a nuisance after presenting a speech he is beat by Preston books.

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Many people moved to Kansas for farmland but others came to support or oppose slavery the struggle over slavery soon turned violent.

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Document were Stephen A Douglass proposed we should build a railroad to California and thought if we split Nebraska and let people settle it will work

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Arrested runaway slaves had almost no legal rights Northerners refused to enforce the law.

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The agreements made in order to admit California into the union as a free state. Also outlawed slave trade in Washington D.C.

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Many southerners thought they should extend the Missouri compromise line all the way to the pacific but when California wanted to join the union as a free state but congress became deadlocked after the south denied it.

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There was a document called the wilmot proviso it stated that  neither slavery or involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory acquired from from mexico.

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Nat turner led one of the biggest rebellions but individual slaves rebelled to to the slave holders the northerners were like bank robbers.

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The second great awakening leaders of this early 1800 religious revival that promised that god would bless those who did the lords work.

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It was 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. Also created  imaginary line in which any future in which a state was above this line it is a free state and under this line would be a slave state.