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Following the election of 1860,  11 Southern states seceded from the Union. They were already planning this if the Republican party one the election, so immediately after he was elected, they left. They did this because they depended on slavery for their economy, witch Lincoln did not want to do.

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Southerners proposed a bill extending the Missouri Compromise line all the way to the Pacific. Slavery would be prohibited north of the line and allowed slavery south of it. Northerners in Congress turned down this proposal.

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Fugitive slaves, or runaway slaves, In the United States, were slaves who left their master and traveled without authorization or illegally. Most of them had the goal to reach non-slave states or territories, including Spanish Florida(Present day Canada).

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This was a collection of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850. It settled a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War. The compromise also allowed the US to expand its territory by accepting California as a state. California was rich in gold, agricultural products and other natural resources which would improve the country overall.

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This Act was passed on September 18, 1850 by Congress. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. The act required slaves to be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. This Act granted the people who lived in Kansas and Nebraska permission to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act was meant to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which banned slavery north of latitude 36°30´.

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Bloodshed in Kansas was when there was basically a mini civil war between anti- and pro- slavery supporters. It happened in Kansas from 1856-1865. After the The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854, thousands of Northerners and Southerners came to the new Kansas territory. A lot of the Northerners had a goal to prevent slavery at all costs.

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On May 22, 1856 the senate had just adjourned when a pro-slavery southerner entered with a cane in hand. He then walked over to Senator Charles Sumner and beat him in the head until unconscious. There were multiple occasions like this, most of them being  before the civil war.

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The Dred Scott case, or The Dred Scott Decision, was a decade long fight for the freedom of Dred Scott, a black slave. This case went through multiple courts and even reached the U.S Supreme Court. Their decision angered abolitionists, motivating them even more. This occasion was a big factor that led to the civil war.

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The Lincoln - Douglas Debates were a series of seven debates between the Republican Party, represented by Abraham Lincoln, and the Democratic Party, represented by Senator Stephen Douglas. Lincoln and Douglas were trying to win control of the Illinois General Assembly for each of their parties. The debates talked about a lot of the future issues Lincoln faced during his presidency.

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#11:Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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#11:Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860. The election of 1860 was the breaking point for the already unstable nation. By Lincoln’s in March of 1860, seven states from the South had already left the Nation. Lincoln closed his first address by saying that the nation shall not be torn apart by war.

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Following the election of 1860,  11 Southern states seceded from the Union. They were already planning this if the Republican party one the election, so immediately after he was elected, they left. They did this because they depended on slavery for their economy, witch Lincoln did not want to do.