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The force of events moved very quickly upon the election of Lincoln. South Carolina seceded from the Union first, then six more went along with them and seceded.

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States. He was the first president from the Republican Party at the time.

Source: WhiteHouse.org

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On October 16, 1859, john brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South.

Source: civilwar.org

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Although Illinois was a free state, the main issue discussed in all seven debates was slavery in the United States. In agreeing to the official debates, Lincoln and Douglas decided to hold one debate in each of the nine congressional districts in Illinois.

Source: american-historama.org/

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The Dred-Scott DecisionThe Dred-Scott Decision

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The Dred-Scott DecisionThe Dred-Scott Decision

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In March 1857, the Supreme Court issued its decision in that case, which had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state.

Source: UShistory.org

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On May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate when Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner an abolitionist, with a walking cane.

Source: UShistory.gov

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a series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.

Source: nps.gov

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The Nebraska Kansis Act of 1854  was proccessed by the Congress, letting the citizens in Kansas or Nebraska to decide on their own to have slaves of their own or not.

Source: google.com

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The fugitive slave act was put in order and north and the south didn’t like it. The north didn't like it because they didn't think it was morrally right and didn’t want to enforce the acts on slaves in the south. Getting their lost slaves was not fully promised to the south.

Source: fugutive.com

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Admiting California into the union was going to be hard since the north and south didn’t agree much. They decided to let New Mexico and Utah be in the union as well and let the citizens chose if they wanted keep slaves or not. The Compromise of 1850 haad to be done to have balance in the number free and not free states in the Union. Another state, Maine had also applied in the union to be as a free state.

Source: UShistory.org

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Southerners wanted to have slaves while the northeners didn’t want to have slaves from the Mexican Cession land. The South tryed to convince the north to split America to slavery and non-slavery land, but they denied it. As California was about to become one of the states in the union, southerners didn't like it but northerners were welcome to it. The south thought it would unbalance the union and it was to be a free state in the union.

Source: michaellamarr.com

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Congress had put place the "gag rule", which was for the Congress to not accept any antislavery petitions. One member from Congress decided to add an amendment to the bill or rights. It was to not have slavery in the American states during the Civil War. Many southerners in Congress didn't like it, but it got passed by the Congress, and was denied by the Senate.

Source: blogspot.com

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Nat Turner inspired many slaves to become rebellions, and to run away. Most single slaves during that time escape the tough life.

Source: Pinterest.com

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At the time, Congress was struggling with many problem with the south and slavery. Congress had also ignored Abolitionists because many members in Congress didn’t oppose slavery.

Source: mrkash.com

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state  under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north.

Source: pbs.org