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The Southerners were so afraid of slavery being abolished, they left the Union. Their new country was called the Confederate States of America.

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Lincoln won 40 % of the votes although eh was not on ten states' ballots in the South. It showed that the South was in the minority and they feared slavery would be abolished.

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Douglas was against Lincoln in the Senator Race, and he saw no reason as to why the state could be half slavery and half free. Lincoln challenged him to a debate, and said that slavery was a moral debate between those that see it as right and those that see it as wrong; this speech made him a national figure.

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Dred Scott sued his master because he believed he was a free slave since he went to a free state. The court decided that he could not sue for his freedom because no African American could ever become a citizen, and second, he was not free because the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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Senator Sumner voiced suspicions about Senator Douglas in a philippic in which he believed that Douglas had plotted with Southerners to make Kansas a slave state. In a fir of anger, Preston Brooks beat Sumner in retaliation for his speech until he broke his cane on Sumner's head.

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After the Kansas-Nebraska Act, many peaceful farmers moved to Kansas, but some people went to Kansas to support or oppose slavery and it ended up violently. Pro-slavery people attacked the anti-slavery government in Kansas, then abolitionists hacked five pro-slavery men to death with swords.

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Neither Northerners or or Southerners liked the fugitive slave law. So it was said that anyone who helped a slave escape or refused to help look for an escaped slave would be jailed.

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Kansas and Nebraska wanted to become states of the Union, and so it was decided that, like New Mexico and Utah, that whether the state was a slave state or a free state was by popular sovereignty.

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California wanted to be a state, but would it be a slave state or a free state? This compromise said that California would be a free state, but the New Mexico and Utah territories would be chosen as a slave or free state by the people. Also, slave trade in Washington D.C. would be banned and there would be a fugitive slave law.

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During this time, slaves would run away from their owners to the North, where they could be free. Their owners were frustrated and saw this as property and money being lost, and they demanded a law to help recapture their property.

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The Seconds Great Awakening came and urged people to do good, which was stop slavery. And so abolitionists started causing problems and were unhappy with the slavery situation.

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Missouri wanted to enter the Union, but Congress was not sure if it would be a slave state or a free state, since it was in both territories. They came up with an agreement saying it would be both and slavery would be banned above an imaginary line.