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The force of events moved very quickly upon the election of Lincoln. South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the Confederacy was formed. Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union.

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On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell. He was the first president from the Republican Party.

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His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South. He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal, arm slaves in the area and move south along the Appalachian Mountains, attracting slaves to his cause. He had no rations. He had no escape route. His plan was doomed from the very beginning. But it did succeed to deepen the divide between the North and South.

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The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger, Abraham Lincoln, and the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' two United States Senate seats. Although Lincoln lost the election, these debates launched him into national prominence which eventually led to his election as President of the United States.

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Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that Mar 28, 2018

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As Brooks beat Sumner with a cane into a state of unconsciousness, Sen. Laurence Keitt, also from South Carolina, prevented fellow congressmen from coming to Sumner's defense. Keitt waved a pistol at Sumner's defenders and shouted, "Let them be!". As a result, Sumner suffered from head trauma and was not able to return to the Senate for 3 years while recuperating. Brooks went to trial for the attack with the end result being a fine of a mere $300.

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Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was 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.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.

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people in the north and the south were unhappy with the fugitive slave act, though for different reasons. northerners didn't want to enforce the act

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on january 21, 1850, Henery Clay now a senator from Kentucky, trudged through a Washington snowstrorm to pay a call on Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts. Clay the creator of the Missouri compromise, had a new plan to end the deadlock over California.

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southerners proposed a bill that would extend the Missouri compromise line all the way to the pacific. slavery would be banned north of that line and allowed south of it. northerners in congress rejected this proposal.

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southerners in congress strongly opposed wilmot's amendment and maintained that congress had no right to decide where slaveholders could takes their property. The wilmot proviso passed the house, but it was rejected by the senate.

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northerners were no better than bank robbers because they saw a slave as a valuable piece of property. every time a slave escaped, it was like seeing land vanish in the air. Slaveholders demanded that congress pass a fugitive slave law to help them recapture their property.

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As John Adams predicted, for the first time the contest over slavery was settled. however, a powerful force was building that pushed the issues in to the open again: the second great awakening. leaders of this early 1800's religious revival promised that god would bless those who did the lord's work.

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an agreement made by congress in 1820 under witch Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. it also created an imaginary line in which ant future state north of this line would be a free state and south of the line would be a slave state.