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The South secedes from the Union because they felt they were now in the minor due to Lincoln's election.

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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 The 1860 United States presidental election, with just 40 percent of the votes, all of them cast in the north.

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During the debate, Douglas argued that the slaver issue has been set, while Lincoln argued that slavery is a moral, not a legal issue. Licoln lost the election but The Lincoln-Douglas debates increased tensions between the North and the South.

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A Missouri slave named Dred Scott sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.

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Republican Senator Charles Sumner Brooks beat Sumner was beaten  in the United States Senate because of an anti-slavery speech in which Sumner verbally attacked Brooks's second cousin. Southerners supported Brook while the Northerners saw Brook no better than the proslavery bullies.

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Bleeding Kansas was a mini civil war between pro- and anti-slavery forces that occurred in Kansas from 1856 to 1865. Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, thousands of Northerners and Southerners came to the newly created Kansas Territory. Many Northerners intended to prevent slavery at all costs

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

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Neither the Northerners nor the Southerners were satisfied by the Fugitive Slaves Act, The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. Northerners did not want to enforce the act, while Southerners felt like this act is not enough to return their property.

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The Compromise of 1850 accepted California as a state, ended the slave trade in Washington D.C., and called for a passage of a strong fugitive slave law.

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Individial slaves continued to rebel by running away to freedom in the North, helped by Notherners that felt sympathetic. Slaveholders demanded Congress to pass a law to help them get their escaped slaves back.

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Abolitionists wanted to stop slavery in Washington, D.C., but Congress turned a blind eye on anti-slavery petitions. Northern abolitionists were angered because they wanted Congress to outlaw slavery in the capital.

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In an effort to keep the power of slave and free states balanced, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 stating Missouri as a slave state.