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

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Lincoln sailed to victory, but it was an odd victory. Lincoln won the presidential election with just 40 percent of the votes, all of them cast in the North. In ten Southern states, he was not even on the ballot.

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While Lincoln fought to stop 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 Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

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Lincoln's opponent in the Senate race was Senator Stephen Douglas, an Illinois senator who saw no reason why the nation could not go on half-slave and half-free.

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In 1857, the slavery controversy shifted from Congress to the Supreme Court, which was about to decide a case concerning a Missouri slave named Dred Scott.

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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 plotted with Southerners to make Kansas a slave state.

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In the South, towns sent their young men to Kansas so that they could have it as a slave state Kansas had two competing governments in the territory, one for slavery and one against it.

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it created two more territory's and they left it up to settlers themselves to decide if they want slavery or not

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the northerns and southerns did not agree with the act because they did not ant to enforce it and the south did not like it because it did not ensure there escaped property

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Henry clay was the creator of the Missouri compromise he had a new
plan to end the deadlock of California

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in 1849 California applied for part of the union as a free state but the southerns rejected California's request because if they let it be a free state the balance of free and slave state would be unequal and then they would put slavery to an end

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president said that they could not have slavery in the territory they acquire from mexico the southerns strongly disagreed because they said they have no right to tell slaveholders where they could take there plantation so the bill was rejected

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There where slaves that escaped to the north and people helped the slaves the southerns said that they where no better than bank robbers

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the southerns thought that if they made Missouri a free state then slavery would end.

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they called Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state