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When asked about a compromise on slavery, Lincoln said he would not interfere with the Southerner's slavery and he would enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. However, in that same day South Carolina and six other states dissolved and became the Confederate States of America.

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11. Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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11. Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President

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Abraham Lincoln easily won the election because his opposition was divided three ways. Lincoln won with 40% of the votes, all from the North and the Southerners feared he would try to abolish slavery.

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These were political debates between  Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. They both tried for Senator of Illinois where slavery was the main issue.

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In 1857 controversy had started when Dred Scott had visited Wisconsin with his owner, but then went back to Missouri demanding his freedom because Wisconsin is a free state. However, the Court rejected his decision.

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Senator Charles Sumner believed that Senator Stephen Douglas plotted to make Kansas a slave state and he spoke about it publicly. This enraged Southerners and Sumner was almost beaten to death after.

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After the Nebraska-Kansas Act people settled in Kansas to farm, support slavery or oppose it. This controversy soon turned violent because Kansas had two competing governments.

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A senator named Stephen Douglas introduced a bill that year which caused an uproar in Congress. It made Kansas and Nebraska territories and it ended the Missouri Compromise.

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The Fugitive Slave Act did not please Northerners because they did not want to promote it and Southerners they felt it was not reliable. This act made it so a runaway slave that was caught had no legal rights.

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Henry Clay made up a plan to end the deadlock over California in 1850. His compromise allowed California to become a free state but it also allowed New Mexico and Utah to allow slavery. His plan also ended slave trade in Washington D.C

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During this time fugitive slaves rebelled by running away to freedom in the North.

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For a time slavery was not controversial, until the Second Great Awakening. People tried to do the Lord's work by abolition.

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This was a compromise made by Congress in 1820. This compromise made Missouri join as a slave state and made Maine a free state.