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The talk of secession went around as the election date came closer. Senators started to from a committee to find another compromise that would make the nation happy. The committee held it's first meeting in 1860 and soon after, the secession of South Carolina was announced by the Union.
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The Abraham Lincoln election was an odd victory. He won with just forty percent of the votes in the North and wasn't even in the ballot of the south
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As an attempt to stop the spread of slavery, John Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in Virginia. Brown wanted to use the weapons there to arm slaves for a rebellion. All his men were killed or captured and brown was sentenced to death in 1859 when his raid launched.
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The Lincoln- Douglas Debates was a series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the race for Illinois US Senator.
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A Pennsylvania representative named David Proviso added an amendment to the Bill known as the "Wilmot Proviso". The amendment was a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory and they demanded that Congress passed a fugitive slave law to help them recapture their property.
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The Dred-Scott Decision was a Supreme Court decision made in 1857. It was decided upon the decision that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and how the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
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Senator Butler's Nephew, Preston Brook's, brutally beat Charles Summer for his speech against the raid on Lawrence, Kansas he gave two days earlier.The reactions of people showed how divided the country was. Most Southerners were proud of Brooks for defending his family, but Northerners saw the beating as an example of the South's brutality
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Settlers came to Kansas either to support or oppose the Nebraska- Kansas act after is was passed. Kansas then had two competing governments, one for slavery and one against it. The fight over slavery turned violent. In May of 1856, settlers from Missouri invaded Kansas.
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An act passed in 1854 that  created Nebraska and Kansas territories. The act also abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to decide whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories. This act outraged the Northerners.
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This act had little legal rights to have slaves arrested as a runway. To prevent getting caught, many slaves ran away to Canada. This acts states that anyone who helps a slave escape or refuses to aid a slave catcher could be jailed.The Northerners did not want to enforce the act, but Southerners thought the act didn't do enough to ensure the return of their slaves
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The creator of the Missouri   Compromise, Clay, had to create an idea to end the deadlock over California. The compromise of 1850 was later formed as an agreement made in order to admit California to the Union s a free state. This agreement allowed New Mexico and Utah to decide weather to allow slavery, to outlaw slave trade in Washington, and create a stronger fugitive slave law.
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Congress debate what to do with the slavery in the territory gained by Mexico, Southerners all of the Mexico Cession to be open for slavery, but the Northerners wanted all of it to be closed off. So as a compromise, Southerners offered to extend the MIssouri compromise line to the Pacific. California applied to the admission, but Southerners rejected it, making California a free state.
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Slaves continued to attempt to flee to freedom in the North after Nat Turner's Rebellion. In fear of their properties vanishing, slaveholders demanded for a fugitive slave law to be established by the congress.
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Ok The Missouri Compromise of 1820 fell apart because of abolitionism. Congress decided to ignore this. Therefore, they declined John Quincy Adam's proposal of a constitutional amendment. Southerners feared abolitionists, especially after Nat Turner's Rebellion.
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Maine requested to be apart of the Union as a free state when Congress came back to Washington in 1820. The situation was not easy to figure out and conflict occurred as a solution was being sought.      A compromise was later created under which Mine would enter the Union as free state and Missouri as a slave state.
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