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Wasn't going to interfere with slavery in the South.Down in the south Carolina delegates voted to leave the union.

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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 the presidential election with just 40% of votes, all of them cost in the north serious-in 10 southern states, he was not even on the ballot.

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Rather than wait for congress to act. Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry,Virginia

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A series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass,who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator in which slavery was the main issue.

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In 1857,the slavery controversy shifted from Congress to the Supreme, which was about to decided a case concerning a Missouri slave named Dred Scott.

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The violence in Kansas greatly disturbed Senator Charles Summer of Massachusetts. To Summer, it was proof of what he had long suspected-that Senator Stephen Douglass had plotted with Southerners to make Kansas a slave state.

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The Border War was a series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.

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An act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories

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The fugitive slave act was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850.This 1851 poster warned free African Americans in Boston to watch out for slave catchers looking for escaped slaves. Even people who helped escaped slaves could be jailed.

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The agreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state. These agreements include allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the slavery trade in Washington,D.C,and creating a stringer fugitive slave law.

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As a compromise, Southerners proposed a bill that would extend the Missouri Compromise line all the way to the pacific.Slavery would be banned north of that line and allowed south of it.Northerners in Congress rejected this proposal.

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The gag rule kept the slavery issue out of Congress for ten years. Then, in 1846, President James Polk sent bill to Congress asking for funds for the war the Mexico.

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A person who flees or tries to escape.

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In 1820, the Missouri Compromise resolved the issue by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also drew a line across the Louisiana Territory. In the future, slavery would be permitted only south of that line.

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An agreement made by congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. It also created an imaginary line in which any future state north of this line would be a free state and south of the line would be slaved state.