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When Lincoln was asked about slavery in the nation he said it would be allowed to stay in the South but could not move to new territories in the west. The South then decided to secede.

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In 1860, Abraham Lincoln won the presidency with only 40% of the vote. This meant the South was the minority.

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An abolitionist named John Brown led a group of soldiers to capture a southern arsenal to arm a slave rebellion. His plan failed but left the South uneasy

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Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas had a series of debates in their senate race and while Lincoln lost, the debates helped spread anti-slavery ideas.

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The Dred-Scott Decision was a Supreme Court ruling that determined that no black man can become a citizen and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

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After the Lawrence incident, one senator called out the South's plans to turn Kansas into a slave state, and in response, a southern senator beat the man unconscious with his cane.

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In Kansas, many pro and anti-slavery forces moved in to claim the territory. In 1856 pro-slavery forces attacked the city of Lawrence.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Acts were a series of laws that created two new territories and allow them to decide for themselves if they wanted slavery or not.

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The Fugitive Slave Act wasn't popular with anyone really. The North didn't want to enforce the laws and the South thought they were too lax.

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In 1850, a Kentucky Senator proposed a plan to please everyone in the Union. First, it admitted California to the Union as a free state and allow the New Mexico and Utah territories to choose if they wanted slavery or not. The plan also effectively abolished the D.C. slave trade, and finally, it added harsher fugitive slave laws to please the South.

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When the Mexican-American War was over, there was a large debate over slavery in the new territory. Southerners suggested that slavery be permitted in the South of the new territory, and banned in the North. The North rejected this. California applied for statehood in 1849 and the North accepted them while the South argued it destroyed the balance between free and slave states.

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In 1846 when President Polk asked for funds for the Mexican-American War, the North agreed under the conditions the new territories acquired would allow slavery. This angered the South because they did not believe the North had the right to tell them where they could take their property.

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Many slaves fled to the North after Nat Turner's rebellion which naturally made southerners angry.

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The Missouri Compromise worked moderately well until The Second Great Awakening when many abolitionists began talking about slavery again. Congress instituted a "gag rule" on the floor to prevent anyone from talking about the issue.

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The Missouri Compromise was an agreement between the north and south to add Missouri as a slave state if Maine was added as a free state.