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Within a 3 moth span of Lincoln's election many states were leaving the Union to form a Confederacy ( a new nation  ).  This signaled that the Civil War will be in the near future, as it was right around the corner.

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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 was elected as the 16th president of the United States in the year 1860. Lincoln elected Hannibal Hamlin of the Republican party to become his Vice President, this infuriated the Democratic party as 2 Republicans had high office rank positions ( served as another separator leading to the Civil War ).

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The Lincoln - Douglas Debates were a set of seven debates in 1858 between candidates Abraham Lincoln a Republican Senator from Illinois and Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party. Lincoln lost because he argued that Douglas wanted popular sovereignty ( to continue and extended the slavery parties ) while he argued / fought to abolish slavery.

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The The Dred-Scott Decision was a decision made in a court case between Dred Scott and J. A. Stanford ( The Supreme Court ). The decision was that there would be no american citizenship for black people, regardless of whether they were enslaved or free.

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On May 22nd, 1856 "The Canning of Charles Summer" occurred in congress. Pro-slavery Representative Preston Brooks from South Carolina used a walking cane to beat / attack Senator Charles Summer. Charles Summer was a Republican abolitionist
from Massachusetts, who earlier gave a speech in which he criticized slaveholders, including the relative of Brooks.

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Bleeding Kansas ( Bloodshed in Kansas ) was a "small civil war" lasting from 1854-1859 fought between pro-slavery and antislavery supporters over the control of the newly admitted territory of Kansas. Many Northerners came to rally to prevent slavery while Southerners rallied in support of slavery.

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The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 was an act passed in May of 1854 in which allowed the residents of the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within the territories borders. The act repealed / opposed to the Missouri compromise as it said that slavery was allowed north of the latitude 36°30´.

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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required caught fugitive ( runaway ) slaves to be returned to their slave master / holder despite if the state was a free or a slave state. The act was offsetting to Northerners ( Northerners were livid ) as this was another event that led to the Civil War.

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The Compromise of 1850 was a set of bills passed by the United States congress in September of 1850. The bills settled the political confrontation between the slave and free states revolving around the territories acquired in the Mexican-American War . The bills determined which states got the certain territories from the war.

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"Fugitive Slaves" (also known as runaway slaves) were slaves who left / fled their slave master to escape, in hope of reaching territories were slavery was banned ( locations like Canada, Spanish Florida and various locations of the North ). Many of the slaves were caught however as the government implemented the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 unraveled in the early 1850's because of Illinois Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas. He was responsible for getting the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 passed by congress which further divided the country even more so as it went against the fundamentals of the compromise ( injustice of slavery ).

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How one piece of legislation divided a nation - Ben Labaree, Jr.

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a compromise in which Missouri could be admitted to the union as a slave state if the state of Maine was admitted as a free state as well as slavery was banned in the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. This was an attempt to balance the power between the Free and Slave States but it was unsuccessful of this, as it became a factor leading into the Civil War.