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The force of events moved very quickly upon the election of Lincoln. South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the Confederacy was formed. Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded.

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, He was the first president from the Republican Party.

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an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a U.S arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene.

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A series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. At the time, U.S. senators were elected by state legislators; Lincoln and Douglas were trying for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois General Assembly The debates previewed the issues that Lincoln would face in the aftermath of his victory in the 1860 Presidential Election. Although Illinois was a free state, the main issue discussed in all seven debates was slavery in the U.S

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In 1857, the slavery controversy shifted from Congress to the Supreme Court, which was about to decide a case concerning Missouri slave named Dred Scott. Years earlier, Scott had traveled with his owner to Wisconsin, where slavery was outlawed due to the Missouri Compromise. When he returned he went to court to win his freedom. He did not win his freedom and it pleased southerners

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The violence in Kansas greatly disturbed Senator Charles Sumner a senator in Massachusetts, it was proof of what he long suspected -- that senator Stephen Douglas had plotted with Southerners to make Kansas a slave state. Two days after he made a speech in Congress. Representative Preston Brooks attacked Charles Sumner

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After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, settlers poured into Kansas. Most were peaceful farmers looking for good farmland, but some settlers moved to Kansas to either support or oppose slavery. Before long Kansas had two competing governments in the territory. The struggle over this soon turned violent. On May 21, 1856 proslavery settlers from Missouri invaded Lawrence, Kansas, The home of the antislavery government and burned a hotel, looted several homes, and tossed the printing press in of a abolitionist newspaper into the Kaw River.

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Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois introduced a bill into Congress in 1854 to create two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska. It sparked a uproar because it angered northerners because it abolished the Missouri Compromise under the terms of the act.

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People in the North and the South were unhappy with the Fugitive Slave Act though for different reasons. Northerners did not want to enforce the act, whereas southerner felt the act did not do enough to ensure their property would be returned.

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Henry Clay a senator in Kentucky the creator of the Missouri Compromise had a new plan to end the deadlock over California. With the help of Daniel Webster a senator in Massachusetts. Clay's Compromise had something to please about everyone.

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For the next three years, Congress debated what to do about slavery in the territory gained from Mexico. In late 1849, California applied for statehood for admission to the union as a free state. Northerners in Congress welcomed California with open arms but Southerners rejected California's request.

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In 1846, President James Polk sent a bill to Congress asking for funds for the war with Mexico. PA representative David Wilmot added an amendment to the bill known as the Wilmost Proviso --- it stated  "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any territory that may be acquired from Mexico as a result of the war. Southerners were angry with this because they believed Congress had no right to tell them where they could take their property.

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Nat Turner's rebellion was one of the largest slave revolts, but individual slaves continued to escape with the help of sympathetic northerners.  Slaveholders saw slaves as a valuable piece of property. Slaveholders demanded that Congress pass a fugitive slave law to help them recapture their property.

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The Missouri Compromise worked for a few years. But with the second great awakening many people saw slavery as a very outdated and immoral practice.

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An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. It also created a imaginary line in which any future state north of this line would be a free state and south of the line would be a slave state.