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The events moved very quickly upon the election of Lincoln. South Carolina called 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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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President :

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President :

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Even the it was divided into three ways, Lincoln won the election with just 40% of votes. All in the North, in 10 South states he was not even on the ballot. The South felt like they lost liberty, property,home , country and everything that makes life worth living.

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While Lincoln fought to stop the spread of slavery, abolitionist John Brown adopted a more extreme approach. Instead of waiting for Congress to do something he planned to do something at Harper's Ferry , Virginia. This place is where all the weapons were stored so he wanted to give weapons to slavery so they could attack the South and win their freedom. The plan did not work and John Brown was convicted of treason and sentenced to die.

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Lincoln's opponent in the Senate race was Senator Stephen Douglas, he thought the states should be half slave and half free. Lincoln challenged him to debate the slavery issue, Douglas agreed. Douglas argued that the Dred Scott decision had put slavery to rest but Lincoln disagreed. He thought slavery was moral. Lincoln soon lost the election but the debates were widely reported and it helped make him a national figure.

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In 1857, the Supreme Court issued a decision in the Dred Scott Case. African Americans were not citizens and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Dred Scott was a colored man and thought since he made a trip to Wisconsin which was a free state he was a free man.

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This violence in Kansas greatly impacted Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. It was proof that Senator Stephen Douglas had agreed with Southerners to make Kansas a slave state. Reactions to the attack on Sumner showed how the county divided, Southerners were happy and very thankful Brooks for defending and honoring the South.

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Congress standing against BJP’s ideology of violence, aversion: Rahul Gandhi

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Was a series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which went  from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. John Brown  was an American abolitionist who believed in armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.He first gained attention when he led small groups of volunteers during the Bleeding Kansas crisis of 1856.

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An act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories. This act hit the North like a thunderbolt.the Northerners were haunted by the visions of slaves marching.

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Sound Smart: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 | History

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Passed by the United States on September 18,1850 , between Southern slave holding interests and Northern Free Soldiers. Abolitionists nicknamed it the Bloodhound Law for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves. Part of Henry Clay's famed Compromise of 1850 , a group of bills that helped quiet early calls for Southern secession—this new law forcibly compelled citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves.

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January 21, 1850 , Henry Clay from Kentucky who was a senator drove through a snowstorm to pay a call to Daniel Webster of Massachusetts. Called for the admission of California as a free state , the strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Law, popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico concerning the question of slavery.The abolition of the slave trade in D.C , and the federal assumption of Texas's debt.

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The Compromise of 1850 Explained: US History Review

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The South wanted all parts to be opened to slavery while  the North wanted all of it to be closed.  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.North rejected this proposal. 1849, California applied for the union to be a free state. Congress considered it but south did not like the idea.

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The gag rule kept the slavery issue out of congress for ten years but then in 1846 President James K Polk sent a bill to congress asking for funds for the war with Mexico. David Wilmot added an amendment to the bill known as the Wilmot Provisc. It stated that " neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist." Southerners congress strongly opposed Wilmot's amendment and said that congress had decided where slaveholders could take their property.

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The Fugitive Slave law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1950 as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern Slave holders interest and Northern free soldiers. To slaveholders these Northerners were no better than bank robbers. Slave Holders demanded that Congress pass a Fugitive slave law to help them recapture their property.

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John Quincy Adams predicted for a long time  that slavery was settled, but a powerful force was building that soon pushed the issue into open again which is the Great Awakening. In early 1800s they thought God would bless those who did the Lords work. The Gag work was a legislative regulation that limited  discussion or debate on a particular issue. The gagging of anti- slavery petitions by congress continued from 1836 to 1844.

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Unit 6, Part 1- Causes of the Civil War, 1.mp4

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What is the  Missouri Compromise? It is an agreement made  by congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.John Quincy Adams recognized the Compromise had not settled the future of slavery in the United  as a whole. " I have favored this Missouri Compromise , believing it to be all that could be effected under the present Constitution and from extreme unwillingness to put the Union at hazard."