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10.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_violence
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After Lincoln's election, South Carolina decided to secede from the Union. Then, six states followed forming the Confederate States of America.

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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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Lincoln won a close election as the South did not vote for him. When Lincoln was elected, southerners feared that Lincoln would abolish slavery.

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John Brown's raid was led in 1859, and John planned this raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia to end slavery. HIs raid failed, but he did suceced of making southerners fearful.

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Lincoln and Douglas run for president. Douglas wins the election, but Lincoln's debates became popular.

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In 1857, a slave named Dread Scott went to court as he moved to Wisconsin with his owner. In Wisconsin slavery was banned because of Missouri Compromise, but he never won because they said the Missouri Compromise wasn't there anymore.

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In 1856, Sumner spoke out about "The Crime Against Kansas". Later, he was then beat badly with a cane by Preston Brooks.

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After the Nebraska-Kansas Act, conflict arose. Pro-slavery and anti-slavery men settled in Kansas, and had many gruesome fights and invasions.

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The Nebraska-Kansas Act was passed in 1854 and created two new  territories, Kansas and Nebraska. It also abolished the Missouri Compromise, and left it off to the people to decide whether they were going to become slave territories.

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The Fugitive Slave Act was the act that slaves running away with no legal rights were arrested.

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In 1850, Henry Clay created a proposal to stop conflict between the North and the South. Clay Created The Compromise of 1850, which allowed California a free state, but also allowed the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether they wanted slavery. Although this only resolved conflict for a little while, this compromise only made things worse as the conflict between the North and the South was worse every year.

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In 1849, California applied to the union as a free state, and was accepted by the Union. The south did not welcome this idea of California being a free state, and conflict erupted again between the North and the South.

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In 1846, President James Polk asked Congress to fund for the war with Mexico. David Wilmot added a condition called the Wilmot Proviso that made it so that none of the land claimed as a result of the war shall have slavery.

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Slaves fled from their slaveholders for freedom with the help of other people. Slaveholders tried to make congress pass a law that helped them capture their property, but nothing was done.

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Conflict erupts again as abolitionists tried to ban slavery in all the states, but congress ignored the abolitionists pushing the problem off to the side. Abolitionists did not stop there though as they kept taking steps to abolish slavery.

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The act in which Missouri was accepted as a slave state while Maine was  accepted as  a free state by congress as a compromise. This helped solve conflict between the North and South.