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After Abraham Lincoln was elected as President, many people in the South who were pro-slavery saw it as a direct threat to their culture of slavery because of Lincoln's anti-slavery views. Due to this reason, many Southern states seceded from the Union in fright of what the new President would do to their ways and cultures of slavery.

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In 1860, Lincoln's lasting impression in the North proved helpful in the 1860 presidential elections, where Lincoln was elected as President of the United States of America. However, this victory for the first Republican President would only further divide the Nation on the issues of slavery.

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In 1858, an new political anti-slavery part called the Republican party was formed, and a tall man from Illinois challenged Stephen Douglas for the states's Senate seat. Although Lincoln lost, he left a lasting impression in the North where support for abolitionism continued to grow.

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In 1858, a slave from Missouri sued his owner for his freedom because the slave owner had brought him to stay in Wisconsin for a while, which was a free state, and therefore the slave thought that it meant he was a free man. However, the Supreme Court's decision shocked many Northern abolitionists as the court ruled that the slave was not a free man.

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Violence was not just restricted to Kansas, but also spread to Congress. Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner was suspicious that Douglas, who proposed the Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 was secretly trying to secure Kansas as a slave state. On the floor of the Senate, Sumner shouted insults at southern senators who supported slavery. One of these southern senators was Andrew Butler, and a couple days later his nephew went to beat Sumner in the head with a metal cane, and left Sumner with traumatic brain damage.

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As both abolitionists and pro-slavery people moved to Kansas to try and sway the vote for a free or slave state, many turned to violence. Kansas became known as "Bleeding Kansas" during this time due to the constant fighting between Jayhawkings (abolitionists) and Border Ruffians (pro-slavery).

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The bill was first brought up because Stephen A. Douglas thought that a railroad stretching across the entire U.S. would be easier to build in actual states, rather than unorganized territory. Both states would be allowed to vote for themselves, but this would bring much conflict to both states as both Northerners and Southerners rushed to the states to help sway the vote in their favor.

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The Fugitive Slave Act required all citizens to capture and turn in runaway slaves, and it angered many Northerners and abolitionists as it applied to them as well. However it inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe to write her bestselling book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which helped rally support for abolitionism in the North.

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When California applied for statehood in 1849, Congress became divided once again and another compromise was made. The compromise allowed California to become a free state, Utah and New Mexico could vote free or slave state for themselves, slave markets were banned in Washington D.C, and Congress implemented the Fugitive Slave Act.

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After Nat Turner's rebellion, many Southerners began to fear an uprising from slaves, and states began putting harsher and more restricting laws on slaves. Some states even began to pay for the arrest of some fugitive slaves.

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Although Northerners accepted Missouri as a slave state, they still pushed for abolitionism politically, which infuriated Southerners. The Southerners pushed to stop talk of abolitionism, which became known as the "Gag Rule" in the North.

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In 1820, in order to silence talk of a civil war in Congress, the Missouri Compromise was proposed. The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to become a slave state, but a new boundary would be made to mark the boundary of slave states in the North.