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late 1849, California applied for admission to the Union as a free state. Northerners in congress welcomed California with open arms, they warned, would upset the balance between slave an free states.

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After the election, talk of secession filled the air. Alarmed senators formed a commitee to search for yet another compromise that might hold the nation together.

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14. Abraham Lincoln is Elected as president

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14. Abraham Lincoln is Elected as president

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With his opposition divided three ways, lincoln sailed to victory, but it was an odd victory. 40% was from the north , while in the south Some of the ballets didnt even have Abraham on them.

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Abolitionist John Brown adopted a mor eextreme Approach. Rather than wait for Congress to act, Brown planned to seize the federal aresenal at Harpers ferry, Virginia.

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a series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race U.S. senator, in which slavery was teh main issue.

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a supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was Unconstitutional.

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the violence in Kansas greatly distorbed Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusttes. TO sumner, it was proof of what he hadlong suspected - that senator Stephan Douglas had plotted with Southerners to make Kansas a slave state.

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an act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished teh Missouri Compromise by allowing sttlers to determine whether slavry would be allowed in the new territories.

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The fugitive slave act was passed as part of the compromise of 1850. Thsi 1851 poster warned free African Americans in Boston to watch out for slave catchers looking for escaped slaves. Even people who hwlped escaped slaves could be jailed.

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After the Kansas- Nebraska act was passed, many people flooded into Kansas. Most were peacefull farmers looking for farmland, but some settlers moved to Kansas either to support or to oppose slavery.

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the agreements to made to admit california into the union as a free state. These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to allow slavery, outlawing the slave trade in washington, D.C.,and creating a stronger fugitive slave law.

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a proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican - American War

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A person who flees or tries to escape ( for example, from slavery)

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The gag rule Kept slavery issue out of congress for ten years. Then, in 1846, President James Polk sent a bill to congress asking for fund for the war with Mexico.

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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 and south line would be . It also created imaginary line wich any future state north of this line would be a slave state.