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Lincoln wasn't going to interfere with slavery in the South. Down in South Carolina delegates voted to leave the Union. The city went wild as church bells rang. After them 6 more states left and formed the Confederate States.This began the Civil War.

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In 1860 the republicans were behind Lincoln while the others were split. He won with 40 percent of the votes.

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U.S. marines stormed the arsenal at Harpers Ferry that was raided by John Brown and his men. Brow was charged with treason, convicted, and then executed by hanging.

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A series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main issue.

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A Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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The Kansas disturbed Congress greatly. Preston Brooks savagely beat Charles Sumner on the Senate floor in retaliation for Sumner's speech against the raid on Lawrence, Kansas. It took Sumner over three years to recover.

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When settlers poured into Kansas, most were peaceful farmers other there to support or oppose slavery. Kansas had two competing governments because of slavery that turned bad. May 21, 1856 a violent act raged through Kansas.

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This created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new area.

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It was passed as part of the 1850 Compromise. It warned free African Americans in Boston to watch out for slave catchers. Anyone that helped an escaped slave would be in jail.

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The agreement made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state. This included allowing New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery or not.

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California applied to be part of the free state union. Northerners agreed with open arms, while Southerners rejected their request.

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A bill that said "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist, in any territory part of Mexico."

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A person who flees/ leaves that is trying to escape things like slavery.

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As as our country grew and new states were added. New movements came up like the Second Great Awakening, and Antislavery movements.

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An agreement made by Congress under which Missouri came into our union. It became a slave state and Maine was then admitted as a free state.