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The talk of the south succeeding started only weeks after Lincoln's election. One reporter in Illinois asked President Lincoln on whether he would make a compromise on the border of slavery, Lincoln responded by saying "Let there be no compromise." While Lincoln was saying this, Southern delegates voted on whether the south should succeed or not. That same day they voted to leave the Union.

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In the election of 1860 there were three parties involved, the Republican Party which promoted Abraham Lincoln, the Democrat Party, which was split into two different factions, one side that supported slavery and one side that opposed it, and the last party was called the Constitutional Union Party. In the end of the election Lincoln one the election with forty percent of the votes. The southerners saw Lincoln's election as a threat to the southern economy.

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In 1858 a new anti-slavery political party called the Republican party was created and on the rise. In Illinois a lawyer name Abraham Lincoln challenged Stephen A. Douglas for a seat in the Senate. In the debates Lincoln publicly explained his stance on slavery. Lincoln was defeated, but he left an impact on the growing abolitionist movement.

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In 1858 a slave named Dred Scott sued his owner because his owner took Scott to stay in Wisconsin. He argued that since he was in Wisconsin it made him a free man. However the Supreme Court ruled that since Scott was a slave he was not able to sue his owner or become a citizen of the US.

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The violence in Kansas greatly concerned the senator of Massachusetts, Charles Sumner. In 1856 Sumner voiced his views on the violence in a speech titled "The Crime Against Kansas." Two days later, the nephew of the senator of South Carolina attacked Sumner with a metal tipped cane.

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After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed many settlers came to Kansas, some came because of farmland, but others came to either oppose or promote slavery. The struggle between the two turned violent when pro-slavery settlers invaded the anti-slavery government

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The act abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing new territories to decide whether they wanted to be a free or slave state. The act also created the Kansas and Nebraska territories.

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The Fugitive Slave Act required northerners to return fugitive slaves to their owner. The act also required any person who helped a slave escape to be arrested. However almost no one was arrested because everyone in the North resisted the act

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The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state and allowed New Mexico and Utah to vote for themselves on whether they were free or slave states. It also banned slave markets in Washington D.C. and passed the Fugitive Slave Act

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After Nat Turner's rebellion many slaves escaped slavery with the help of sympathetic northerners. Because of this Southern slave owners demanded that Congress pass a fugitive slave law

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The Compromise unraveled because of the Second Great Awakening which caused many Americans to push the banning of slavery

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The Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state, but there was a new boundary across the Louisiana territory which would stop the spread of slavery to the northern states.