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In the election of 1860, South Carolina was the first state to remove itself.

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In 1860, Lincoln became president. Lincoln faced against Douglass who was a northern candidate.

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John browns family became an anti-slavery family. He led small groups in the hopes of destroying the industry of slavery.

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He saw no reason why the state could not go half slave and half free.

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In 1857, the slavery controversy shifted from congress to the supreme court. Scott won his freedom to make him a free man.

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The violence in Kansas greatly distributed Senator Charles Summer.

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was passed in 1854. The struggle over slavery suddenly turned violent.

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The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 turns upside down the traditional way of thinking about one of the most important laws ever passed in American history.

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Henry clay now a senator from Kentucky.

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For the next 3 years, congress debated what to do about slavery in the territory. The north denounced slavery as a crime against humanity.

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The gag rule kept the slavery issue put of congress for 10 years. Congress had no right to decide where slave holders could take their property.

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To slave holders, these northerners were no better than bank robbers. The gag rule kept the slavery issue put of congress for 10 years.

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The" gag rule" congress have the power to ban slavery in the nations capital. Abolitionists were far from silenced

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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. Also created an imaginary line in which any future state north of this line would be a free state and south of the line would be a slave state.