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After Lincoln was elected president, the topic of seceding from the Union went around the South. The south declared independence from the Union.
https://monitor.noaa.gov

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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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With 40% of votes, Lincoln was elected president int he election of 1860. However, he was hated so much by the Southerners that he wasn't even on the ballot.
https://www.whitehouse.gov

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Instead of waiting for the congress, John Brown wanted to seize federal weapons to end the act of slavery.
https://www.biography.com

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Lincoln-Douglas debates is a longterm series of debates occurring between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass.
http://www.american-historama.org

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Dred-Scott, a slave, sued for his freedom in a free state, Wisconsin. He demanded his rights to the supreme court.
http://www.blackpast.org

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When senator Charles summer tried to stop the fight in Kansas, he was beat up by an angry Southerner just two days before his speech.
http://combatblog.net

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Even after the Kansas Act, the Northern settlers and the Southern settlers continued to fight violently over the topic of slavey.
http://loc.harpweek.com/LCPoliticalCartoons

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The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 was to abolish the Missouri Compromise and allow the settlers to choose whether to allow slavery or not. This outraged many Settlers from the North.
https://www.kshs.org

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The Fugitive Slave Act was to stop runaway slaves from escaping to the North. This Act was created to satisfy the North and the South, but it ended up pleasing nobody.
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu

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On January of 1850, Henry Clay decided to clarify the statehood of California. To have his idea through the congress, he came up with a plan to please the North and the South. He suggested to join in California as a free state, but at the same time allow Utah and New Mexico to be a slave state. This satisfied both the Northerners and the Southerners.
http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/

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When California was to join in the Union as a free state, the Southern representatives rejected the request. As a result, California remained undecided by the Congress.
http://www.coinandstampgallery.com

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In Wilmot Proviso, a proposal made to outlaw slavery in the Union, it stated, "neither slavery or involuntary servitude shall ever exist." However, many plantation owners int he South strongly opposed to this statement.

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Slaves from the South ran away to the North to search for freedom. For the Southerners, they were losing property because of the North. The Southern slave owners were filled with rage.

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In 1836, the congress voted to put the debate of slavery aside in order to calm down northerners and Southerners. Then, in the late 1840's, California joins the Union as a free state.
http://clic.cengage.com

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The Missouri compromise of 1820 was an agreement for Missouri to be part of the Union as a slave state and for Maine to join as a free state. This compromise kept the Union, but there were many complaints from the North and the South.
http://www.thomaslegion.net/