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Talk of secession became very common during the election, Senators worked hard in an attempt to create another compromise while another senator asked Lincoln what he would do about slavery, he said he wouldn't interfere with slavery in the South but he said it couldn't extend into the territories. A state convention in South Carolina had many people on the same day to vote to leave the Union, they left and six other states soon followed to form the Confederate States of America.

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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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Lincoln had won the election despite getting only 40 percent of the votes and how in 10 southern states didn't have him on the ballot. White Southerners were concerned with Lincoln becoming president as they wouldn't be able to change national events or policies and were worrying that Congress would eventually abolish slavery.

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John Brown was an abolitionist who believed that immediate action would stop slavery as what John Brown did was start a raid on the federal arsenal in Virginia to get weapons for slaves to create a rebellion big enough to end slavery. The raid ended in failure with John Brown being hung to death, John Brown left a note behind which spooked Southerners as some of them would die if a slave rebellion were to begin and they were also concerned that many northerners had seen John Brown as a hero

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Abraham Lincoln had debated with Stephen Douglass when running for Senate in Illinois involving slavery and a topic Stephen brought up was the Dred Scott case put the slavery issue down but Lincoln believed the slavery issue was more moral rather than legal. Due to the debates going widespread, it helped to make Abraham Lincoln into a national figure .

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The Dred-Scott Decision was a decision made in a case in the Supreme Court where a slave by the name of Dred Scott has said that he had initially had stayed in Wisconsin with his master above the Missouri Compromise and that his stay in Wisconsin had made him into a free man. Chief Justice Roger Taney had shown that Dred Scott couldn't get his freedom through utilizing court as no African American whether being free or enslaved were American Citizens and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional through the 5th Amendment and that slaves were considered property, after the decision was made, people were delighted that the decision came out in their favor while the North was enraged by what had happened

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Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts had thought that Stephen Douglass had plotted with southerners to make Kansas a slave state through the raid that was preformed. Charles Sumner had made a speech addressing southerners along with Stephen Douglass with abhorrent language, the South was enraged by the speech and a representative of South Carolina attacked Sumner a few days after his speech went 'round and the populace had different reactions as the South had complimented the representative for defending the name of the South and his family while the North had seen it as another example of the brutality exemplified by the South.

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As the Nebraska-Kansas Act was passed, people ranging from farmers to people who supported or went against slavery  had settled in these territories. As the tension between Southerners and Northerners  had risen,  some slavery supporters had invaded a city in Kansas and preformed a raid, due to the raid, more and more northerners had moved to Kansas and they raised money to pay for destroyed property, and a man by the name  of John Brown was outraged by the raid so he went out with seven followers and invaded a proslavery town and dragged out five men suspected of supporting slavery and killed them.

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The Nebraska-Kansas Act was a bill created by Stephen A. Douglass and the bill had created two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska, and it abolished the Missouri Compromise line. Northerners didn't like the bill as it made the two new territories into slave territory and they didn't enjoy the images in their heads that pictured slavery spreading into the Great Plains.

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Henry Clay, the creator of the Missouri Compromise, worked along side Daniel Webster who was the Senator of Massachusetts at the time to help get out the Compromise of 1850. The Compromise of 1850 was created by Henry Clay in an attempt to get rid of the deadlock that prevented California from joining the Union, the compromise planned to act out by admitting California as a free state, New Mexico and Utah would decide to allow slavery or not, ended the slave trade in Washington, DC, and made a stronger fugitive slave law. Congress had adopted the compromise after about nine months of debate and despite what was included in the compromise, it didn't get rid of any of the tension between the North and the South

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Congress had debated on what to do with the territory gained from Mexico involving slavery, the South wanted all of the territory open to slavery while the North wanted it colsed. Southerners made up a compromise that extended the Missouri Compromise line all the way over to the Pacific and the North denied it, California then wanted to enter the Union as a free state but Southerners complained that it would upset the balance between representation of both slave and free states.

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President James Polk made a bill asking for funds for the war against Mexico and David Wilmot, a representative for Pennsylvania, added an amendment to the bill known as the Wilmot Proviso which stated that people who owned slaves in the territory that could be gained from Mexico would have to move their slaves. Southerners opposed this as they thought Congress didn't have the right to tell them where to take their slaves. The proviso was rejected by the Senate.

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Runaway slaves were typically helped out by Northerners who felt sorry for them while slave holders see these types of Northerners as people who were making their property disappear and these slaveholders wanted Congress to pass a law to remedy this.

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The Second Great Awakening caused a surge of abolitionists in the early 1800s. Congress had voted to set aside all petitions regarding anti-slavery, this angered the abolitionists but they still went against slavery through writing, the South tried to prevent abolitionist writing from reaching slaves along with creating new strict laws for slaves after Nat Turner's rebellion.

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The Missouri Compromise is a result of Congress preventing the Union from splitting up and the Missouri Compromise had admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and Congress created an imaginary line at latitude 36'30' which prohibited slavery above the line forever except for Missouri.

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The Fugitive Slave Act caused people who were jailed as runaway slaves to have barely any legal rights and that anyone who attempted to help out a runaway slave or refuse to help slave catchers could be jailed. Both the North and the South didn't like the act as the Northerners didn't feel like enforcing the act while Southerners felt like there wasn't enough being done to get their slaves back.