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Election of 1860 and New Republican Party

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Election of 1860 and New Republican Party

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Americans were afraid that their self-government was going to collapse and fall apart. Disagreement over  slavery was the main cause for this concern but European immigration, westward expansion, industrialization, and political corruption also played a roll. The new Republican Party focused on preventing the spread of slavery in the western territories. In the Election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln defeated John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell to become president. In the moths after Lincolns election seven states seceded. These states were South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, and Texas.

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Passed May 30,1854 allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to vote and decide wether they would be a slave state or not. This act was supposed to repeal the Missouri Compromise and allow slave states above the north of latitude 36°30´. This angered the anti slave north and was happily accepted by the pro slave south. As of a result of this Act many pro and anti slave supporters rushed to settle in Kansas in order to vote on the states activity in slave.The massive influx of pro slave owners and abolitionist led to many protest and some became violent. This lead to the first act of violence between pro and anti slave supporters called “Bleeding Kansas”. This conflict caused president Pierce to send in federal troops to break up the fighting.

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Dred Scott was an educated slave who brought his fight for freedom to court. Eventually the case became so big that it made its way to the Supreme Court. The final decision was that since Dred Scott was a slave, he was a piece of property and possessed no legal rights or recognition's given to a human being. The Dred Scott decision threatened to totally redevelop the treaties and governments that had up to that point prevented the Civil War. By classifying slaves as property, the federal government’s authority to regulate the institution became much more ambiguous.

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John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut. He was raised with extreme Anti- Slavery views. Brown led a small raid in Lawrence, Kansas where he dragged five unarmed men and boys who he believed were slavery proponents away from their home and killed them. He also freed eleven slaves after killing their owner.In October 1859, Brown organized a small group of freed slaves and allies for a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown captured the arsenal but was quickly defeated by Colonel Robert E. Lee. Brown was tried for treason. This raid struck a kind of fear into the South so they began to reinforce their army to defend against later raids. The South also began to realize that it was most likely going to have to come down to a war if they wanted to keep their slaves. While many abolitionists viewed Brown as a hero, many Slaveholders called him a villain. However, both sides condemned Browns use of violence in the situation.

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Charles Sumner was a vowed slave abolitionist and in 1855 Sumner supported the republican party who wanted to end slavery. As the tensions between the North and South became higher due to the Kansas- Nebraska act, so did sumner's speeches in congress. He was so determined to get his people into Kansas and shouted at those who wanted to extend slavery into Kansas and ended up assaulting a colleague Andrew Butler. Shortly after that speech Preston brooks a family member of Butler began viciously beating Sumner over the head with his cane on the Senate floor. It was said that Sumner spent 3 and a half years recovering form the beating from Brooks. When Sumner returned to the Senate he constantly told Lincoln to pass a bill giving the slaves but like most men could not for-see that this would make the South succeed. This beating just increased tensions between the north and south even more than before.

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- As the incense of slave owners and abolitionist, there needed to be a balance in the salve and non slave states to satisfy both parties.
- The Missouri Compromise states that Missouri and Maine would be admitted to the union, one as a slave state and one as a free state. Also the remaining territories would be divided into free and slave states at the 36 degree 30’ parallel. This now caused a physical divide in the nation and only increased the tensions between slave owners and non slave-owners.Since the nation wanted to keep the balance between free and slave states, the admitted Maine and Missouri one as free and one as a slave sate to keep the balance because the Nation was in need of balance.
- The Fugitive Slave act allowed the government to capture and return escaped slaves and return them to their owners. This troubled the North Deeply and led to great opposition witch led to led to the personal liberty laws witch gave the slaves a right to fight by a Trial by jury. The South in return purposed a new Fugitive slave act that did not allow slaves to testify on their own behalf and refused trial by jury.