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President Lincoln publicly said he would not support any more compromises on slavery. On the same day South Carolina delegates voted on leaving the Union, later 6 more states followed South Carolina's lead.

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Lincoln was supported by the Rebuplicans, it was an add win as he was not even in some southern state ballots. As a result of his win, the south soon realized they were now the minority.

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This was a series of political debates with Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. They debated over the issue of slavery.

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A slave named Dred Scott and his owner took a trip to Winsconison, a slave free state, Dred Scott sued his owner fighting for freedom. However, the Supreme Court came to the Dred Scott, that any African Americans were not citizens and could not sue, as well as the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. (Below is Dred Scott)

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Senator Charles Sumner of Masssachusetts very much disapproved of Senator Stephen Douglas's goal to make Kansas a slave state. Sumner publicly expressed his disgust agaisnt Douglas, resulting in Douglas's nephew, South Carolina's representative Preston Brooks, to beat Sumner with a metal cane until the cane broke in half

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A compromise composed by Henry Clay, compromise admits Califronia as a free state, allows the New Mexico and the Utah territories to decide whether they want to be a slave state or not. It also outlaws slave trading in Washington D.C and creates a stronger fugitive slave law.

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After the Nebraska-Kansas Act was passed people started migrate west to Nebraska and Kansas. There were also people moving to influence the government to fight or oppose slavery. After awhile the fight over slavery started to become more violent

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As a result of The Second Great Awakening, northerners pushed the issue once again, they started many anit-slavery petitions. However, Congress issued an action called the "Gag Rule" which  put an end to all the anit-slavery petitions, by "gagging" or silencing the northerners.

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The Nebraska-Kansas Act formed two new territories the Nebraska and Kansas territories. This Act also abolished the Missouri Compromise leaving the two territories to decide for themselves whether they were to be slave states or not.

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Under the Fugitive Slave Act a person arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal rights, and that any person to aid a runaway slave or not help the slave owners would be arrested.

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After Nat Turner's Rebellion there were no more large slave rebellions, but individuals still rebelled. Slaves would run away from their owners and were often helped by people in the North.

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A compormise was written, Missouri would be admitted as a slave state, however a new boundary would be established across the remainder of the Louisiana Territory, preventing the spread of slavery to any other states north of the 36th parallel.