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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, Breckinridge, 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 Ferry, Virginia. found in google.

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Lincoln and Douglas was debating who was going to be president of the United States of America.

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It was a case concerning a Missouri slave named dred Sott

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The Northerners were given Brooks new canes to replace the one he killed Sumner's with.

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The slavery supporters invaded abolitionist homes and stole the loot and burned down hotels and tossed the abolitionists newspaper into the Kaw river.The southerners were killed.

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The north wanted the Great Plains into the Nebraska Territory and open the region to settlers.

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Henry clay had a plan to end the deadlock over California, but he needed Webster's support to get his plan through Congress

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California wanted to became a free state and the south rejected California's request. The southerns said that it would make it unbalanced of free states to slave states.

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These fugitives from slavery were often helped in their escape sympathetic people by the north.

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Abolitionists flooded Congress with antislavery petition, but were told that Congress had no power to interfere with slavery in the states

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The South thought if Missouri became a free state that the North will ban slavery. The North thought if the south gets Missouri that the free states will became slave states.

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Slavery and Missouri Compromise in early 1800s | US History | Khan Academy