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Abraham Lincoln is elected as president 

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Abraham Lincoln is elected as president 

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On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckin ridge, and Bell. He was the first president from the Republican Party

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raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

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series of seven debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois state election campaign as among the most significant statements in American political history.

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Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled 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

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Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.

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The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soldiers.

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an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850

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California applied for admission to the union as a free state.

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southerners in congress strongly opposed Wilmot's amendment and maintained that congress had no right to decide where slave holders could take their property

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These fugitives from slavery were often helped in their escape by sympathetic people in the north.

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Leaders of the early 1800's religious revival promised that god would bless those who did the lords work. For some American's, the lords work was the abolition of slavery.

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The Missouri compromise of 1820 admitted Missouri to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.