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Lincoln wasn't going to interfere with slavery in the South. Down in South Carolina  delagates voted to leave the Union. The city went wild as the church bells rang. After them, 6 more states left and formed the Confederate States. This began the Civil War.

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14. Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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14. Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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Lincoln won the presidential election with just 40% of votes, all of them cast in the North. In ten Southern States, he was not even on the ballot.

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Rather than wait for Congress to act, Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

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A series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main use.

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A Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United Statesand the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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The violence in Kansas greatly disturbed Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. Preston Brook's savagely beat Charles Sumner on the Senate floor in retaliation for Sumner's speech against the raid on Lawrence, Kansas.

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The struggle over slavery became violent. On May 21, 1856 pro-slavery settlers and so-called "border ruffians" from Missouri invaded Lawrence, Kansas, and the home of anti-slavery government.

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Created two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska, it abolished the Missouri Compromise by leaving it up to the settlers themselves to vote on whether to permit slavery in the two territories.

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This was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850. It wanted free African Americans in Boston to watch out from slave catchers. Anyone that helped an escaped slave went to jail.

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The agreements made in order to admit California in the Union as a free state. These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the slave trade in Washington D.C.,and creating a stronger fugitive slave law.

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California applied for admission to the Union as a free state. Northerners in Congress welcomed California's request while Southerners rejected.

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In 1846, James Polk sent a bill to Congress asking for funds for the war with Mexico. Pennsylvania representative added an amendment to the bill known as the Wilmot Proviso stating "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist" in the newly acquired land.

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As time continued, slaves attempted to escape to freedom in the North with Southerners believing they were being robbed of what was rightfully theirs.

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Movements such as The Second Great Awakening and anti-slavery movements were put in place as our country continued to grow. Abolitionists had became more motivated to abolish slavery which led to the unraveling of the North and Souths way of life. A "Gag Rule" was placed to silence congressional debate over slavery.

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. In this way, it maintained the balance of power between slave and free states. At the same time, Congress drew an imaginary line across the Louisiana Purchase at latitude 36°30'.