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South Carolina was the first state to secedes the union and after them, other southern states followed in an effort to continue the practice of slavery.

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When Lincoln surprisingly won the presidential election in 1860 and when he did the north was happy about it but the south was not.  After his election, the south decided to leave the union.

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Lincoln gained fame in the north by forcing Douglas to publicly explain his view on the issue and then Lincoln ended up winning the 1860s presidential election.

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Dred Scott made said that being in Wisconsin made him feel like a free man before he went to court.  The Supreme Court ruled the case by saying as a slave she was not a citizen and could never be one and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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The violence in Kansas eventually made its way into Congress as well, Charles Sumner was attacked by Stephan Douglas because he thought Sumner secretly made sure Kansas was made to be a slave state.

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The Kansas territory went into a time of extreme violence.  Border Ruffians targeted and attacked abolitionists in Kansas while Jayhawers attacked pro-slavery families.

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In 1853 Stephan A. Douglas said that the territories of Kansas and Nebraska should become states.  This act brought the United States closer to the Civil War than ever before.

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The Fugitive Slave Act required people in the north to catch slaves that had tried to run away from the south.

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In 1850 a man called Henry Clay proposed a compromise in which attempted to satisfy and balance both slave states and free states.  The first thing it did was make California a free state and then it also made New Mexico and Utah able to vote for themselves, and slave markets were banned in Washington D.C.  The compromise also made the Fugitive Slave Act which infuriated lots of people.  The Fugitive Slave Act made Northerners help slave owners in the South.

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In 1831 a slave who was called Nat Turner led a rebellion and killed 51 white Americans in a month and his rebellion resulted in harsh restrictions being put on slaves.  A fugitive slave is a slave that escaped their plantation and planned to run away to a free state in which they cannot be put into slavery.

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The Missouri Compromise backfired on the Congress and they were swamped with anti-slavery bills during The Second Great Awakening.  Northerners were determined to abolish slavery through a political solution but they angered Southerners and they tried to stop every conversation about the abolition of slavery in the US.

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In 1820 Congress made Missouri a slave state and Maine as a free state in an effort to keep the balance between the number of pro-slavery and anti-slavery states.  When Missouri was made a slave state, Congress said there wouldn’t be slavery in some parts of the Lousiana Territory.