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Although Lincoln did not force the South to give up slavery, he was not willing to compromise with the South to keep their ways. Eventually, starting in South Carolina, the states started to secede, one by one, which started the Civil War.
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14. Abraham Lincoln is Elected President

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14. Abraham Lincoln is Elected President

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During the presidential election of 1860, the Republicans were supportive of Lincoln. For the Democrats, they were divided like the North and South, and they had two different candidates. Despite the confusion of a lot of candidates, Lincoln was able to win the election with only 40 percent of the votes. However, the votes were all from the North, as the Southerners refused to put his name on the ballot. This gave a message that shook the South: They were the minority now.
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Instead of debating, John Brown used violence to act. He went and attempted to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, and planned to use the weapons to start a rebellion. However, he turned out to be unsuccessful, and he was sentenced to death and a lot of his supporters were killed as well. This made the Southerners scared of a slave rebellion, and it concerned them that the North saw John Brown as a hero.
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Lincoln and Douglas were both elected for Senate, and constantly debated due to their different views on slavery. While Lincoln insisted that the nation could not remain divided, Douglas insisted that the nation was fine, and the Dred Scott decision had settled this argument. Despite this argument, Lincoln believed that slavery was immoral and had to be stopped.
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Dred Scott was a former slave who escaped and lived in a free state for a while, then argued that he had won his freedom at his stay in the free state. The Supreme Court disagreed however, and Chief Justice Taney said that since Scott was property he had to be returned to his owner, and his stay in a free state did not count as the Missouri Compromise was no longer valid, therefore allowing slavery everywhere. This further angered many Northerners.
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After the bloodshed that happened in Kansas, the events caused distress in the Congress. Charles Sumner wrote a speech on the violence happening in Kansas, also expressing his views against slavery and the South. This angered Preston Brooks, a southern senator, who assaulted and beat Sumner with his cane. This caused heavy injury and upset many people.
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In Kansas, many settlers moved into the state, hoping to turn it into either a slave or free state. Eventually, the arguments turned into violence, and the supporters of slavery raided the abolitionists. This led John Brown to retaliate, which caused the murder of people that were suspected to support slavery.
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The Nebraska Kansas Act canceled the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allowed slavery anywhere. Many Northerners were angry, as they were scared of their states becoming slave states. Another act that angered the Northerners was the Ostend Manifesto, where the president attempted to purchase Cuba. Many people saw this as the president trying to add another slave state to the Union to upset the balance between slave and free states.
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The Fugitive Slave Act made it so that any runaway slave had to be returned to their master. However, many slaves just escaped to Canada instead. It also required people to aid slave catchers and stop aiding slaves or suffer a punishment. This angered many Northerners, they viewed it as the law was forcing them to be a slave catcher. This law was not efficient, however, as only 299 slaves were captured out of the tens of thousands of fugitive slaves.
https://www.sutori.com/item/the-first-fugitive-slave-act-passed-by-congress-in-1793-stated-that-local-gove

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The Compromise of 1850 was a plan proposed by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. It allowed California as a free state but let other states, like Utah and New Mexico decide on their slavery status. Another part of the Compromise was that slave trade would not be allowed, but there would be a strong fugitive slave law so Southerners could still keep their slaves. After long debating, this was accepted in Congress, however, this compromise did not work, as it did not resolve the problem of slavery and the debates only grew worse.
https://www.haikudeck.com/compromise-of-1850-education-presentation-rUTBkJ4aF1#slide0

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When the US gained territory from Mexico, there were many debates and compromises over the land. Southerners wanted to extend the line to the Pacific, allowing slavery below it, but California wanted to accepted as a free state. The South was unhappy, and the result was a deadlock. Southerners threatened to withdraw from the Union and the North stressed slavery as inhumane.
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During the war with Mexico, a representative proposed the Wilmot Proviso, which made it so no new land gained from Mexico could be made into slave states. This angered the Southerners, who said the Congress had no right over where they handled their property. The Wilmot Proviso did not make it past the Senate, however.
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The northers were sympathetic on slavery and continually helped them escape from the South. The South saw this as robbery of their property and demanded a law to be passed to let them retrieve any runaway slaves.
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Despite the Missouri Compromise, abolitionists kept making petitions to Congress to end slavery in the South. The Congress refused to do anything and instead created the gag rule, preventing any more anti slavery petitions, which angered many abolitionists.
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When admitting Missouri and Maine in the US, the question rose on whether they would be free of slave states, and the compromise made it so that the area north of the 36 30 parallel was a free state and the area south would be slave territory.
http://www.thomaslegion.net/transcriptofmissouricompromiseof1820.html