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The force of events moved very quickly upon the election of Lincoln. South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the Confederacy was formed. Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union.

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On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckenridge, and Bell. He was the first president from the Republican Party.

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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

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The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.

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Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom.

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Preston Brooks attacked Charles Sumner with his cane, he beat him until the cane broke in half and Sumner fell bloody and unconscious.

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Periodic bloodshed along the border followed as the two factions fought battles, captured towns, and set prisoners free. A political struggle to determine the future state's position on slavery continued

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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.

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The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. ... Abolitionists nicknamed it the "BloodhoundLaw" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.

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They were trying to end disputes in the north and the south about slavery so the fugitive save act was put into effect and slavery was abolished in Washington D.C.

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California becomes a state on September 9, 1850

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The southern territories were all labeled as slave states while the northern territories were labeled as free states.

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Fugitive slaves were slaves who ran away from their owner and tried to escape slavery. If they were caught they could be returned, whipped, beaten, and even killed.

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They resolved the problem by letting Missouri be a slave state and they also admitted Maine as a free state. This drew a line for the future that all states in the south were slave states and all states in the north were free states.

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In 1820 Missouri wanted to join the united states and admitted to join as a slave state. The northerners were mad because that would mean that there were more slave states than free states. So the northerners said that for that to happen Maine would have to be admitted as a free state, so it didn't work out then.