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Abraham Lincoln would not disrupt slavery in the South however, he kept intact the "Fugitive Slave Act," and slavery would not be permitted outside of the South. South Carolina left the Union on December 20, 1860, and six other states soon seceded as well. In 1861, those states formed the confederate states of America.
http://www.thomaslegion.net/americancivilwar/alabamacivilwarhistory.html

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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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In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as President of the United States. Lincoln's votes were all from the North, the South no longer was able to have an influence on nationwide politics etc.
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3755816

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John Brown wished to end slavery with violence. There were consequences to this raid, but in the end it left white Southerners in fear, and Northerners to thank him.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/john-browns-raid.htm

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Lincln debated with Douglas about how slavery was a moral issue, not a legal issue. Lincoln lost the election, but he would now be viewed as a highly recognized leader.
http://wmky.org/post/reader-s-notebook-lincoln-douglas-debates

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In the Dred Scott decision it was determeined that African Americans could not sue in court as they were not citizens of the US, nor could they ever become citizens. Slaves were property, the Northerners were shocked at this decision.
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/mar6/dred-scott-decision/

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Senator Buttler's nephew, the S. Carolina representative, Preston Brooks, brutally attacked Sumner. Sumner wrote a speech called, "The Crime Against Kansas," which decribed the violent assult on Kansas. https://soapboxie.com/us-politics/Violence-in-the-US-Congress-Fistfights-on-the-Senate-Floor

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In 1854 Kansas became very chaotic, settlers consisted of both people who were for slavery, and those who opposed it. On May 21, 1856 men in favor of slavery started violence in the North. Brown, and 7 of his followers hacked 5 men in favor of slavery, to their death with swords.
https://www.nps.gov/teachers/classrooms/ks-sparks-of-war.htm

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The  Nebraska-Kansas Act was passed in 1845. The North was devastated because the North didn't want slavery, and settlers would decide if slavery would exict in the new territories or not.
http://atlantislsc.com/blank-map-of-us-after-kansas-nebraska-act-of-1854/blank-map-of-us-after-kansas-nebraska-act-of-1854-map-us-after-kansas-nebraska-act-fidor/

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Senator Henry Clay sought the help of senator Webster of Massachusetts to pass the Missouri Compromise which would finalize plans for California. Clay's plan would satisfy the North. The South would also be pleased because then the New Mexico and Utah territories would decide whether to allow slavery. The compromise was accepted, congress finally passed it in 1950.
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/maps/

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California requested to enter the United States, as a free state. The south did not agree to California being a free state because then the ratio of free states to slave states would not be equal.
http://www.compromise-of-1850.org/admission-of-the-state-of-california-into-the-union/

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The Fugitive Slave Act stated that anyone who helped a slave escape, or didn't help to catch a slave that was a runaway, would be jailed. The Act also gave arrested runaway slaves little to no legal rights.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts
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Sound Smart: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | History

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After 10 years with no disscussion of slavery President Polk was able to secure founds for the war with Mexico. Wilmont ceated the Wilmont Proviso which stated that slavery could not exist in any territory that was aquired by Mexico.
http://upfront.ngsgenealogy.org/2014/08/slave-and-free-states-us-through-history.html

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Fugitive slaves would escape to the north with the help of sympathetic Northerners. Southerners did not want to keep loosing their property.
https://www.thoughtco.com/anthony-burns-escaping-fugitive-slave-law-45396

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Maine now wanted  to enter the US as a free state. Southerners were not supportive of this and were willing to fight to get what they wanted.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/23c.asp

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The Missouri compromise was a compromise made by congress stating that Missouri would enter being a slave state. With Missouri being a slave state, it balanced out the ratio of slave to free states.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/lincolns-political-landscape/