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They voted to succeed from the Union and those states joined together as the Confederate States of America. Lincoln said that secession was both wrong and unconstitutional.

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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He won with 40% of the votes, all casted in the North and in 10 southern states he wasn't even on the ballet. The South no longer had the power to shape national events or polices and they feared that Congress would try to abolish slavery.

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He wanted to use the weapons to arm the slaves to rebel and end slavery for good. Southern blood would be spilled if a slave rebellion began and the Northerners viewed Brown as a hero leaving white Southerners uneasy.

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This was a series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, which slavery was the main issues. Stephen Douglass was helped in winning the race, the debates were widely reported and helped make Lincoln a national figure, and it became a moral issue was the results of the Lincoln-Douglass Debates.

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This was a Supreme Court decision that in 1857 said that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Dred Scott argued that his stay in Wisconsin made him a free man but the court decided that he could not sue because he was not a citizen.

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Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner with his cane until he was unconscious. Southerners applauded Brooks for defending the honor of his family and the South, though the country became very divided because of the violence that was spreading.

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After the act was passed, settlers poured into Kansas, most were peaceful farmers looking for good farmland, but some of them moved there to either support or oppose slavery. Abolitionists in the North raised money to buy weapons to send to anitislavery settlers so that slavery could end once and for all.

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This act was passed in 1854 and 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. Douglass called this policy popular sovereignty or rule by people and the North still thought slavery would take over the states.

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The North was pleased, because California was admitted as a free state to the union, and the South was pleased, because New Mexico and Utah were able to decide whether or not to be slave states. Plus, slave trading ended in Washington D.C., but they could keep their slaves, and his plan called for passage of a stronger fugitive slave law. Southerners remained wary of the compromise and it lead to the demise of one of the mean political parties, The Whig Party, because members had moral objections to slavery. The compromise satisfied almost no one and the debate grew louder each year.

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A person arrested as a runaway slave had no legal rights and people that helped them could be jailed. This provision would force many Northerners to become slave catchers. Northerners refusal to support the act made enforcement of the act almost impossible.

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This was an agreement that Congress made  to admit Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Congress made a line across the Louisiana Purchase at latitude 36 30 and any slavery was banned North of this line, but it was allowed South of the line.

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Southerners wanted all of the Mexican Cession open to slavery, but Northerners wanted all of it closed. Southerners proposed a bill that would extend the Missouri Compromise line all the way to the Pacific and slavery would be banned north of that line and allowed south of it.

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David Wilmot added an amendment known as the Wilmot Proviso bill, which was a proposal that prohibited slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War. Southerners in congress opposed Wilmot's amendment and thought that Congress had no right to decide where slave holders could take their property.

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The Nat Turner's rebellion was one of the largest slave revolts, but slaves continued to rebel by running away to the North to freedom. Slaveholders wanted Congress to pass a fugitive slave law to help the recapture their property.

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Congress's power to ban slavery in the nations capital was questioned, so in 1836, Congress voted to set aside indefinitely all slavery petitions. The bill  Wilmot Proviso, was a proposal made to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United states as a result of the Mexican-American War, it was passed by the house but rejected by the senate.