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John Brown's Raid was an anti-slavery raid. John Brown strongly believed in abolitionism and sick of waiting for President Lincoln to do something so he took manners into his own hands. He went to Harpers Ferry in Virginia to loot an arsenal and with all of the weapons and ammunition he would arm many slaves to start a raid against slavery supporters. This raid would fail and would please the North, but would horrify the South.
Source: www.harpersferryhistory.org

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After the tension between the South and the North many southern states wanted to leave the union. Northerners relied on Lincoln to say the last word but it was unclear what he was going to do. Meanwhile, many southern delegates united in South Carolina and voted that they would leave the union. Later, six more states left the union.Source:
http://www.ushistory.org

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#14 Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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In 1861, Abraham Lincoln was elected president in a peculiar way because he only got 40% of the votes. The other 60% was divided among 2 other parties but it wasn't enough to beat Lincoln's 40%. Also, Lincoln didn't even appear on a southern ballot which means that all of his votes were from the North. With the south's decrease in power, many southerners thought that they wouldn't be able to keep slavery for longer and that life wouldn't be worth living anymore.
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The Lincoln-Douglass Debate was a debate on slavery on why slavery should be abolished. Douglass said that the Dred-Scott decision put the issue at rest, on the other hand, Lincoln's point of view showed that slavery was more of a moral act. Even though Lincoln's interesting arguments were strong. Douglass won the election.
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The Dred-Scoot decision was a really important Supreme court decision that either had the potential to free a slave. It all happened in 1857, when the court stated that no African-American could become an American citizen, leaving him with no rights. Also, it proved the Missouri Compromise Unconstitutional and that they should remove it promptly.
Source: keywordsuggest.org

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In 1856, there was a congress meeting where Charles Summer made a historic speech called "The Crime Against Kansas". During this speech, Summer talked really badly about southern such as Andrew P. Butler. Two days after though, Butler's nephew, at the senate, stood up and beat up Summer with his cane until it broke on his head. This was a very controversial move v=because many senators were pleased and sent him new canes in the south, but in the north they used this action as evidence to show that it was another sign of "Southern Brutality".
Source: http://www.thefullwiki.org

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After the Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854, many slave supporters and abolitionists poured into Kansas. On May 21st, 1856, pro slavery settlers invaded Lawrence and destroyed all of the abolitionists' printing presses and destroyed many buildings. An enraged abolitionist, John Brown, decided to fight back. He took a mini army of 7 people and went to Pottawatomie to kill five slavery supporters.
Source: www.nps.gov

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The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 was an act that was really because of all the things it did.First it created two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska. Second it destroyed the Missouri Compromise because President Douglass said that the people of the land would be able to vote for what they wanted. Even though the president said that Kansas and Nebraska weren't good planting territories, the north was worried that more slave states would establish.
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The Fugitive Slave Act stated that any slave who got caught fleeing their slave-owner will never have no legal rights and any citizen that does not help in a slave pursuit or doesn't cooperate with slave-owner would be jailed. This law was designed to make a fugitive slave's life miserable.
Source: rk-martin.org

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The Compromise of 1850 was a compromise that made California a free state and that would satisfy both the north and the south due to the strings tied to it. With the compromise, a stronger fugitive law would be made to ensure that slaves never left their owners. Other states, Utah and New Mexico, would also have the choice to be a free or slave state. With the entrance of California as a U.S. State, the United States would have control of the East and West which unlocked a lot of new trading posts. Arguably, California could have been one of the most important addition to the states because it connected them to the west.
Source: www.slideshare.net

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After the Mexican war, California was ready to become part of the United States. But, there was a debate if it should be a free or slave state. After many discussions and debates, Congress was deadlocked on California's request to be a United States state.
Source: www.learner.org

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War with Mexico was near so President James Polk asked Congress for an army. During this time, David Wilmot added an amendment known as the "Wilmot Proviso", this would disallow slavery and involuntary servitude in the new Mexico territory.
Source: History.com Wilmot Proviso

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Since Nat Turner's Rebellion many individual slaves have tried, and succeeded, to flee north. For every one of those slaves, slave-holders lost a lot so they wanted to pass a new fugitive law to prevent them from leaving.
Source: Aaihs.org Black Perspectives

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After few years of working, the Missouri Compromise completely avoided by the Second Great Awakening because people came to believe that slavery was illegal and that they should abolish it for it was God's work. Consequently, Congress was drowned with anti-slavery, but, instead of answering them, they used the Gag Rule and swerved around all of the petitions. Later, in 1839, Jhon Quincy Adams proposed an Amendment that stated that after 1845 no individual will be born into slavery; this proposal was rejected. During these years, the South became scared and offered a $5,000 for an arrested abolitionist.
Source: Orthodoxhistory.org An Orthodox Baptism in the home of John Quincy Adams – and much more besides.

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The Missouri Compromise accepted Missouri to be a slave state if another free state was established-Maine. Even though this Compromise kept the Union together, many people did not like it, in the north congressmen who voted for this were traitors and in the south slaveholders did not like the slave ban.
Source: History.com Missouri Compromise