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After Lincoln's election, there was much talk of secession. First South Carolina seceded and then six other states followed. These states formed the Confederate States of America

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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Lincoln won the election of 1860. He won with 40 percent of the the votes, all of them coming from the North. This election showed that the South was now in the minority.

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A tall, thin,  frontier lawyer named Abraham Lincoln challenged Stephen A. Douglas for one of the states Senate seat. Lincoln forced Douglas to explain his stance on the issue of slavery. Douglas defeated Lincoln, but Lincoln left an impression in the north

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A slave from Missouri, who’s went with his master to Wisconsin, a free state was sued for his freedom, claiming that his time in  Wisconsin had made him a free man. There were 2 rulings. #1 - In a five to four decision, the court ruled that Scott had no right to sue is owner, because, as an African American slave, he was not, nor could be a U.S. citizen.
#2 - The court ruled that Scott’s stay in Wisconsin
could not have made him a free man, because theMissouri Compromise itself was unconstitutional.

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Charles Sumner  hurled insults on southern senators who they felt were, “compelling a hateful embrace of slavery.” Two days later Sumner was beaten with a cane.

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The Kansas territory was thrown into a period of extreme violence known as, “Bleeding Kansas.” Pro-slavery “border ruffians” attacked those who wanted to abolish slavery in Kansas. Meanwhile, Jayhawking abolitionists o terrorised pro-slavery families.

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In 1853, Stephen A. Douglas proposed a bill to make the territories of Kansas and Nebraska into states. He thought Kansas and Nebraska should be allowed to vote on whether or not they were slave states. This act would bring nation extremely close to a civil war.

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Northerners were unhappy with the implemented Fugitive Slave Act, because it required that they participate in the capture of runaway slaves.

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The Compromise of 1850 was made to please the North and the South and was made of four important provisions.

#1 - California would be admitted as a free state.

#2 - New Mexico and Utah would be allowed to vote for themselves.

#3 - Slave markets would be banned in Washington, D.C.

#4 - The Fugitive Slave Act would be implemented.

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Fugitive slaves were slaves that ran away from their masters. Some Northerners assisted slaves in getting because they say slaves a people rather than property

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Northerners accepted the admission of Missouri as a slave state, however they were pushing hard for the abolition of slavery to be solved politically. In 1836 southerners, pushed to stop all conversation of abolition, and Northerners claimed they were being silenced by the "Gag Rule."

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The Missouri Compromise included two main points. Missouri would be admitted as a slave state, but a boundary was established across the rest of the  Louisiana Territory, preventing the spread of slavery to any other states north of the 36th parallel.