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Lincoln denied any kind of compromise regarding slavery, which angered the South. Delegates voted to leave the union and almost everyone approved.

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14.Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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14.Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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Lincoln won with 40% votes, even though his name was not on the ballot in 10 Southern states.

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John Brown siezed the federal arsenal because he wanted to use the weapons to arm slaves for a rebellion. He was hung afterwards.

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When Lincoln and Douglas were up for election, they had different ideas on slavery. Lincoln challenged Douglas to a debate, and he agreed, but Lincoln still lost the election.

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The Dred-Scott Decision was a decision made by the Supreme Court that said that African Americans couldn't be citizens and said that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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Senator Charles Sumner performed a speech concerning the brutality of the attack on Kansas and insulted Douglas. He was attacked later by Preston Brooks.

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Proslavery settlers and people from Missouri invaded Lawrence, Kansas and burned a hotel, looted homes, and tossed the printing press of an abolitionist newspaper into a river.

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The Nebraska-Kansas act created Kansas and Nebraska and abolished the Missouri Compromise.

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Under the Fugitive Slave Act, escaped slaves that were arrested had almost no rights. Any person that helped a slave escape was at risk for being jailed.

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In order to solve the conflict, Henry Clay amended the Fugitive Slave act and abolished slave trade in Washington D.C.

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In 1849 California applied to be a free state, and Northerners accepted it while Southerners did not because they believed it would upset the balance.

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David Wilmot added an amendment to the bill: the Wilmot Proviso. It stated that no slavery shall exist in any part of the territory that Mexico owned as a result of the Mexican-American war.

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During Nat Turner's rebellion, slaves would run to the north for safety where they would be protected by northeners. Southern slave owners saw this as robbery.

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During the Second Great Awakening abolitionists attempted to abolish slavery but Congress denied it, angering the abolitionsists.

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free one.