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In the weeks following the election talk of secession filled the air

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as president 

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as president 

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With his opposition divided three ways Lincoln sailed to victory but it was an odd victory.

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While Lincoln fought to stop the spread of slavery through politics abolitionist john brown adopted a more extreme .

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Lincoln's opponent in the senate race was senator Stephen Douglas an Illinois senator who saw no reason why the nation could not go on half-slave and half-free.

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In 1857 the slavery controversy shifted from congress to the Supreme Court which was about to decide a case concerning a Missouri slave named Dred Scott

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The violence in Kansas greatly disturbed senator Charles summer of Massachusetts .

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After the Kansas-Nebraska act was passed in 1854 settlers poured into Kansas.

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Northerners who were already horrified by slavery were roused to fury by two events in 1854

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people in the north and the south were unhappy with the fugitive

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On January 21,1850 Henry clay now a senator from kentucky trudged through a Washington

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For the nexts three years congress debated what to do about slavery in the slavery territory gained from exico

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The gag rule kept the slavery issue out of congress for ten years

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Nat Turner's rebellion was one of the largest slaves revolts but individual slaves also continued to rebel by running away to freedom in the north

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As john Quincy Adams predicted for a time the contest over slavery was settled.

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when congress returned to Washington in 1820, it took up the question of Missouri statehood once again.