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The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass. They both were candidates  for U.S. senator. Slavery was the main issuse at the time
http://www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/the-lincoln-douglas-debates.html

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As the Election came closer, the talk of secession went around. So senators started to form a committee to find another compromise that would make the nation happy. The committee held it's first meeting in 1860, and soon after announced the secession of South Carolina from the union.
http://c1vilw4r.weebly.com/souths-secession.html

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Abraham Lincoln election was an odd victory. He won with just 40 percent of the votes in the North and wasn't even of the ballot in the south.
https://nypost.com/1865/04/15/president-lincoln-has-been-shot/

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John Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia as an attempt to stop the spread of slavery. Brown wanted to use the weapons there to arm slaves for a rebellion. In 1859, Brown's raid launched and all his men were killed or captured and brown was sentenced to death.
https://www.missedinhistory.com/blogs/show-notes-john-brown-s-raid.htm

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The Dred-Scott Decision was a Supreme Court decision made in 1857. They decided that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
https://www.sutori.com/item/news-article-following-the-dred-scott-decision-in-court

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Preston Brooks, Senator Butler's Nephew brutally beat Charles Summer for his speech against the raid on Lawrence, Kansas he gave two days earlier. The reactions of people showed how divided the country was. Most Southerns were proud of Brooks for defending his family, but Northerners saw the beating as an example of the South's brutality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_violence

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After the Nebraska-Kansas Act was passed settlers came to Kansas either to support or oppose the act. Kansas then had two competing governments, one for slavery and one against it. The fight over slavery turned violent and in May 1856, settlers from Missouri invaded Kansas.
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civilwar/1863/september/quantrills-lawrence-kansas-raid.htm

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An act passed in 1854 that created Nebraska and kansas territories. The act also abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to decide weather slavery would be allowed in the new territories .This outraged the Northerners.
https://sites.google.com/a/oceanschools.org/the-railroad-express/home/kansas-nebraska-act

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Under this act, slaves arrested as a runway had little legal rights. So many slaves ran away to Canada rather than risk being caught. The act also said that any person who helps a slave escape or refuses to aid a slave catcher could to jailed. Both Northerners and Southerns were unhappy with the Fugitive act for different reasons. The Northerners did not want to enforce the act but Southerns thought the act didn't to enough to ensure the return of their slave. Northerners refused to supported that act which made enforcement of the act very hard.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts

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Clay, the creator of Missouri compromise had to come up with a way to end the deadlock over California.Then formed the compromise of 1850 which was an agreement made in order to admit California to the Union as a free state. This agreement allowed New Mexico and Utah to decide weather to allow slaver, to outlaw slave trade in Washington, and create a stronger fugitive slave law.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/30d.asp

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Congress debated what to do with slavery in the territory gained by Mexico, Southerns wanted all Mexico Cession open to slavery but Northerners wanted wanted all of it closed. So as a compromise Southerns offered to extend the Missouri compromise line to the Pacific. California applied to the admission but Southerns rejected it. Making California a free state. The year ended with congress deadlocked over California's request.
https://www.fanfiktion.de/s/51522c7900006e4f06c01770/10/Nordamerika-2072

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David Proviso, a Pennsylvania representative who added an amendment to the Bill  known as the "Wilmot Proviso" . The Wilmot Proviso was a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory. However Southerns in Congress opposed the amendment an decided that Congress had no rights to decide where slaveholders could take their property
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/polk/aa_polk_wilmot_1.html.

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Slaves In the south would rebel and run away to freedom in the North and sometimes people in the North would help them escape. The slaveholders only saw theirs slaves as property and they demanded that Congress passed a fugitive slave law to help them recapture their property.
http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2018/02/fugitive-slaves-as-constitutional-actors.html

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The Second Great Awakening opened to the public due the issue of slavery. Leaders of the revival of the 1820s and 1830s promised that God would bless the people who did the Lord's work, which was sometimes the abolition of slavery.
https://sites.google.com/site/mrflores8thushistory/a-dividing-nation/the-missouri-compromise-unravels

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The Missouri Compromise was an agreement made by Congress in 1820. The agreement admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and admitted Maine as a free state.
http://www.carolana.com/SC/1800s/antebellum/missouri_compromise.html