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After the election, talk about secession went up. Senators started working on a compromise, but President Lincoln made it very clear that he wouldn't accept any compromises. He said he will allow slavery to continue in the 10 southern states but he won't allow it in the territories. Many southern states left the union and joined together as 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's election has president was a odd victory with 40 percent of the votes. Lincoln wasn't even on the ballet in the southern states. The fact that he still won meant the Southerners had little to no power.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/07/23/abraham-lincoln-and-the-election-of-1860

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John Brown took an extreme approach to free slaves. He, along with other men, raided the federal arseny. His plan was to use the weapons to free slaves. During the raid, all of the men were either captured of killed.

https://www.civilwar.org/learn/biographies/john-brown

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Abraham Lincoln's opponent in the senate race was Stephen Douglas. They had a debate over slavery and Douglas argued that slavery was not a legal problem but more of a moral problem. Sadly, Lincoln lost the election

http://www.american-historama.org/1860-1865-civil-war-era/lincoln-douglas-debates.htm

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A slave named Dred Scott traveled to Wisconsin with his owner. Scott went to court over his freedom but unfortunately the Court said he could not sue because he was not a citizen. Northerners were enraged by this ruling.

https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/DredScott.html

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Senator Charles Sumner was appalled by the violence in Kansas. Sumner gave a speech about how Douglas was working to make Kansas a slave state. After the speech he was beaten up by a South Carolina Senator's Nephew. The beating killed Sumner.

http://www.ushistory.org/us/31e.asp

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The fight over making Kansas pro or anti slavery became violent when pro-slavery settlers or "border ruffians" invaded the home of the anti-slavery government. The raid brought outrage in the North and further encouraged northerners to make Kansas an anti-slavery state.

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/september/quantrills-lawrence-kansas-raid.htm

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Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois had a bill that proposed the idea of connecting California to the East by train. The final version of the bill, The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 , created 2 new territories. It was up to the settlers in those territories to decided if the wanted to be a slave state or not. This caused outrage within the North because it went against the Missouri Compromise.

https://www.nps.gov/people/stephen-a-douglas.htm

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The Fugitive Slave Act allowed people to return freed or escaped slaves back to their owners. And people who helped free slaves or did not help slave catchers could have been jailed. The North and South also disagreed on the on the Fugitive Slave Act as the north didn´t want to enforce it and the south did not think it did enough to return their ¨property¨

https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/2016/09/where-do-police-come-from/

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Henry Clay, a Kentucky Senator, had a plan that would end the deadlock over California. He proposed that California would enter the Union as a free state and New Mexico and Utah territories were allowed to decide whether they wanted to allow slavery or not. His plan also included ending the slave trade in Washington, slaveholders would be able to keep their slaves, but there would no longer be selling and buying slaves. Fortunately Congress approved of the plan.

http://www.ushistory.org/us/30d.asp

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Southerners and Northerners disagreed on making California a free state or a slave state. The South proposed a bill the would extend the Missouri Compromise to the Pacific but the North didn´t accept the proposal. California then applied to enter the Union as a free state, however the South rejected the request.

http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/gastudiesimages/California%20Statehood%20Stamp.htm

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Slavery issues were kept out of Congress for 10 years because of the gag rule. Until President James Polk send a bill to Congress and David Wilmot added an amendment to it. The amendment stated that ¨neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist.¨ Southerners strongly opposed this amendment.

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-5/apush-sectional-tension-1850s/a/compromise-of-1850

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Slaves in the South were fleeing in a form of rebellion. Fugitives were often helped in their escapes by sympathetic people from the North.

https://blog.newspapers.library.in.gov/fugitive-slaves-in-indiana/

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Congress was told they had no power to interfere with states that had slavery. The "Gag Rule" created  by a member of Congress, John Quincy Adams, prevented consideration of an anti-slavery proposal.

https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/john-quincy-adams

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Southerners wanted more slave states and threatened secession and civil war. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri to the Union as a  slave state. The compromise only please few people.

https://www.civilwaracademy.com/missouri-compromise