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The weeks following President Lincoln's win in the election lots of talk was going on about the South seceding form the Union. In December of 1860 the rumors became a reality, South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union.

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14. Abraham Lincoln is elected President

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14. Abraham Lincoln is elected President

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When Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election white Southerners feared that slavery would be abolished. They feared this now because Northerners had a political advantage.

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John Brown was an abolitionist who went to the extreme. He concluded that the only way to end slavery was with bloodshed, so he went on a massacre killing people who supported slavery.

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When President Abraham Lincoln was running for senate he challenged his running mate to a debate on slavery. The debate was about slavery and wether it was moral or not.

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Dred Scott a slave from Missouri was taken to Wisconsin with his owner. After his stay in WI he felt like a free man. He then fought for freedom at the Supreme Court.

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The bloodshed in Kansas was followed to Congress. Preston Brooks, a South Carolina Senator Beat Charles Sumner, the senator of Massachusetts.

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After the Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 pro slavery and non slavery settlers rushed into Kansas. The opposition didn't go to well and ended up with bloodshed.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an act that created two new territories Nebraska and Kansas. The act also abolished the Missouri Compromise and made it so the people vote on wether to allow slavery or not to allow slavery.

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The Fugitive Slave Act was a law made in the 1850's that attempted to capture slaves that fled to the North. The Act was a failed attempt due to the North opposing it. The law only captured a fraction of the runaway slaves.

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The Compromise of 1850 was an idea made to stop the deadlock over California. Henry Clay, a senator of Kentucky, proposed the idea. Clay made the compromise so that it would please the North and the South. For Northerners is would allow California to be admitted to the Union as a free state. To please the Southerners he made it so the New Mexico and Utah territories could decide other to be a free state or slave state. The Compromise was passed after nine months in congress.

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After the Mexican-American War Congress debated what to do about slavery in the new land acquired from Mexico. Southerners in Congress wanted California open to slavery, Northerners wanted the opposite. In the end California was admitted to the Union as a Free state.

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After the Mexican-American War, any land that was aquired as a result could not have forced labor or slavery. This was called the Wilmot Proviso, many Southerners  opposed this, therefor it was rejected by the Senate.

Source:http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/chron/civilwarnotes/wilmot.html

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After Nat turner's rebellion many slaves continued to rebel by running away to freedom. To prevent this congress passed the fugitive slave act which allowed slave owners to recapture their property.

Source:http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts

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After the Missouri Compromise A "Gag Rule" was created. This idea was presented by John Q. Adams, it proposed that no one born after 1845 could be born into slavery.

Source:https://newseumed.org/casestudy/1836-anti-slavery-talk-gagged-in-congress/

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 settled a conflict between Congress and Missouri. The compromise allowed Maine to be admitted to the Union as a free state, and Missouri to be admitted a a slave state.

Source:https://mtviewmirror.com/missouri-compromise-1820/