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After the election the South started to think about seceding from the union, and those thoughts were further solidified when the president refused making compromises.
source: http://www.ushistory.org/us/32e.asp

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14.Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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14.Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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The Election of 1860 showed how divided the nation was. All the Republicans supported Abraham Lincoln while Northern Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas but Southern Democrats liked John C. Breckinridge but the Constitutional Union Party wanted John Bell. In the end, Abraham Lincoln was elected as the president with 40 percent of the votes which were all cast in the North. Lincoln as president, the South feared that Congress would abolish slavery.
source:https://news.wgbh.org/2016/10/31/news/claims-elections-are-rigged-have-firm-place-american-history-bc-professor-says

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John Brown took many steps to end slavery But his methods were violent and extreme. He planned to take a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and then arm all the slaves with weapons for a rebellion to end slavery and this was launched in 1859. All of his men were either killed or captured and he was convicted of treason and sentenced to death.
source:https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/john-browns-raid-on-harpers-ferry.htm

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The debates were a series of political debates with Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, on the issue of slavery.
source:http://www.american-historama.org/1860-1865-civil-war-era/lincoln-douglas-debates.htm

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Dred Scott was an escaped slave who went to Wisconsin, and went to court to fight for his freedom in the free state of Missouri. The Supreme court ruled that African Americans couldn't be citizens and said that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
source: http://totallyhistory.com/dred-scott-v-sandford/

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Charles Sumner made a speech called "The Crime Against Kansas", which rudely described Stephen Douglas and the Southerner's plans to make Kansas a slave state. Two days after the speech Preston Brook beat Senator Charles Sumner until he was bloody and unconscious.
source:http://slideplayer.com/slide/8439337/

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After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed many people settled in Kansas and settlers in Kansas supported slavery or were against it. Conflict with slavery turned violent so pro slavery people invaded Lawrence, the home of the antislavery government. Two days later, an abolitionist named John Brown invaded the pro slavery town of Pottawatomie and killed five men that were suspected of supporting slavery.
source:https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-1492-9.html

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Stephen Douglas introduced a bill to have a railroad built to California. To do this he thought that the Great Plains need to be organized into the Nebraska Territory. So he made a bill called the Kansas-Nebraska Act which created the Kansas and Nebraska territory. It abolished the Missouri Compromise because settlers were allowed to decide whether slavery would be allowed in these two regions.
source:https://causesofthecivilwar.wikispaces.com/The+Kansas-Nebraska+Act+1854?responseToken=5bf928412625994d3844a0e44da8a863

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The Fugitive Slave Act said a slaveholder could recapture a runaway slave and anyone who helped a slave escape, or refused to help slave catchers, would be jailed. The North didn't like such an unjust law but the South didn't think the Act was enough to secure the return of their escaped slaves.
source:https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts

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Senator Henry Clay made a plan to stop the deadlock over California. California would be admitted as a free state then it would be the choice of New Mexico and Utah to chose whether to allow slavery. His plan ended the slave trade in Washington D.C. and called for a fugitive slave law. Even with Daniel Webster's support Congress struggled on the Compromise of 1850 for a long time but the compromise was accepted.
source:http://www.ushistory.org/us/30d.asp

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Congress decided what to do with slavery in the land obtained from Mexico. In 1849, California request to join the Union as a free state so The North welcomed California but the South denied California's request since  adding a free state would ruin the balance between slave and free states. so Congress deadlocked on California's request to become a state.
source:http://michaellamarr.com/ca%20statehood/index.html

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James Polk sent a bill to Congress asking for funds for the war with Mexico and David Wilmot added an amendment called the Wilmot Proviso to the bill, which said that any land acquired from Mexico will not have slavery. Southerners very strongly opposed this amendment. It passed the House but was rejected by the Senate.
source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_states_and_free_states

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Many slaves tried to escape by running to the North and They were called fugitive slaves. Slaveholders demanded that a fugitive slave law allowing slaveholders to take back their slaves.
source:https://www.pinterest.com/pin/191051209166114169/

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Due to the Second Great Awakening many people thought that helping to abolish slavery was doing the Lord's work. So northerners took actions to abolish slavery while Southerners attempted to increase slavery. Disagreement over what to do about the problem caused problems between the two groups.
source:http://furniture.stonefly.co/missouri-compromise-essay.html

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Congress couldn't decide if Missouri should enter as a slave or free state because it could ruin the balance of the states. Congress solved this problem with the Missouri Compromise, that admitted Missouri  as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It kept the balance of free states and slave states
source: http://www.compromise-of-1850.org/missouri-compromise-1820/