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After Lincoln became president there were  doubts that the union would stay together and they tried to find compromises to keep it from falling apart. When Lincoln confirmed that there was not going to be a compromise they decided to "dissolve" the union and soon after, 6 other states left. The 7 states formed the Confederate states of America.
Source: timetoast.com

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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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The election shed light on the division in the country but Lincoln carried out the victory. From him winning the election the South grew fearful because they were now very vulnerable to the North.
Source: brandeis.edu

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John Brown, an abolitionist, planned to take Harper Ferry, Virginia's federal arsenal. With the stolen weapons, he would arm slaves for a rebellion. During the raid everyone was killed or captured and brown was sentenced to death.
Source: http://www2.iath.virginia.edu

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As slavery was still a prominent issue, Abraham Lincoln suggested to debate it with Stephen Douglas. Douglas claimed that after Dred Scott the issue was gone but Lincoln made his opposition clear by saying any slavery is unmoral.
Source: kids.britannica.com

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As controversy continued the the debates became the Supreme Courts responsibility instead of Congress'. One case was about Dred Scott a slave that moved to Wisconsin (a free state) with his owner but went back to Missouri to fight for his freedom. The outcome was that slavery was allowed in all territories.
Source: thisdayinquotes.com

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Senator Charles Sumner was shocked after violence broke out so he wrote a speech that soon got distributed throughout the country. His speech did create problems with Southerners though, Preston Brookes (South Carolina representative) attacked Sumner with a cane until unconscious two days after. This attack was taken as an example of the brutality in Southerners and a call to war.
Source: UShistory.org

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Although some settlers moved to Kansas for peace, others came with on thing on their minds, for the South it was making Kansas a slave state and the opposite for Northerners. There quickly became two governments competing which became very violent. One famous raid was on Lawrence which made the North crave revenge which John Brown took into his own hands by killing 5 men with his followers.
Source: civilwaronthewesternborder.org

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This act repealed the Missouri Compromise after creating Kansas and Nebraska's territories. The Missouri Compromise  was abolished by putting the power in the settlers and letting them decide if the territories would be enslaved or free.
Source: historycanvas.pbworks.com

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Although the Fugitive Slave Act seemed beneficial to the South, in reality neither side was satisfied. The South didn't fell that the act ensured the return of slave and the North felt that all enslaved people should be free. When the act was in place people who helped a slave escape or even people who wouldn't help slave catchers, would be imprisoned. The act was not very successful though because out of 10,000s only 299 fugitives were caught.
Source: history.com

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The compromise of 1850 was the agreement made so California could become a free state. This agreement stated that Washington D.C. will outlaw slave trade and New Mexico and Utah can decide if they allow slavery or not, but the fugitive slave law can get increasingly more strict.
Source: http://sectionalismtosecession.weebly.com

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After gaining land from the war there was a constant debate of what to do with the new land. The South proposed extending the Missouri Compromise but the North turned that idea down. Later, California applied to be a state without slavery which angered the South because the amount of representation in congress would be unequal.
Source: fineartamerica.com

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President James Polk of 1846 drafted a bill in order to get money for the Mexican-American war. Before the bill went to congress, David Wilmot made an amendment called the Wilmot Proviso that stated slavery nor involuntary servitude will be present in the new territory. As imagined, the bill did not please the South and it was finally turned down by the senate after passing the House of Representatives.
Source: bioguide.congress.gov

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Fugitive slaves were slaves that ran from the South in hopes of freedom with the help of some sympathetic Northern citizens. After many slaves successfully ran away, congress instituted the Fugitive Slave Act which allowed owners to track down their slaves that ran away and bring them back South.
Source: ohiohistorycentral.org

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As the Second Great Awakening took place religious leaders said that God blessed those who did the Lords work which in this case was abolition. Congress overlooked anti-slavery petitions, which was thought of as "The Gag Rule" because tried to silence abolitionists and debates. This however, did not stop abolitionists, they still used their voices in writing and public gatherings to protest.
Source: dailyhistory.org

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The Missouri Compromise was when congress agreed in 1820, that Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would be free. Even though the Union stayed intact neither sides were satisfied, the North resented congressmen who voted for Missouri to be a slave state and Southerners were unhappy with the ban on possible new slave states.
Source: study.com