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Abraham said he would not interfere with slavery in the South. He would support enforcement on the fugitive slave act. He would not let slavery extend in the other territories.
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He won the election with just forty percent of the votes.
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Planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry,Virginia. he wanted to arm slaves for a rebellion.
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Political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. They were candidates for U.S senator where slavery was the main issue.
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Slavery went from congress to to the supreme court. A slave went to court in Missouri to win his freedom
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Senator Sumner dismissed Senator Douglas because he was plotting to make Kansas a slave state. He also heaped abuse on Southerners like Senator Butler. Butlers nephew beat Sumner with a cane till it broke in half and he was unconscious.
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Farmers moved there looking for good farmland but settlers were there to support or oppose slavery.
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Upset the Northerners because it abolished the Missouri Compromise. Allowed settlers to decide if slavery should be allowed in the new territories.
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It warned free African Americans about slave catchers. Also people that helped slaves escape.
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Agreements made to let California into the union as a free state. It allowed the Southwestern territories to be set up without slavery restrictions. Outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C
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In 1849 California Applied to be a free state. The Northerners said yes but the southerners said no.
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The war with Mexico caused new territories and slavery became an issue again in 1846.
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A fugitive slave is an individual slave that escaped and headed North. Sympathetic people from the North helped them escape.
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Abolitionists flooded congress with antislavery petitions but congress didn't do anything and their was a gag rule. Mississippi offered $5,000 to convict anyone who talked about abolition.
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Maine wanted to enter the Union as a  free state. Congress finally agreed and made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state.
(Compromise of 1850 Heritage Society)