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In 1860 after Lincoln won the election 7 states seceded from the Union and eventually formed the Confederate States of America and in Charleston, South Carolina the confederate states fired on Fort Sumter in 1861 making it the beginning of the Civil War.

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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Abraham Lincoln is Elected as President 

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Lincoln won in 1860. 7 States seceded from the union and formed the Confederate States of America and in 1861 Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter.

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In 1859 Brown launched his raid.Brown was convicted of treason and sentenced to die . On the day of his hanging he left a note that read, " i John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this quilty land will never be purged away but with Blood."

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Lincoln won the presidential election in 1860. South Carolina and six other states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.

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Dred Scott went to Wisconsin with his owner and he said he was a free man because he was in a free state of Wisconsin.

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The violence disturbed Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. Preston Brooks attacked Sumner in the Senate beating him with a metal tipped cane untilit broke in half.

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People poured into Kansas mostly peaceful farmers looking for good farmland. John Brown and seven other followers invaded a home with swords and hacked a man to death,

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Northerners was already horrified by the idea of slavery.The Kansas Nebraska act created two new territories.Douglass tried to calm their fears about slavery and said Kansas and Nebraska geography couldnt

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People in the North and South was unhappy with the Fugitive Slave Act.Northerners was supposed to help the Slave Catchers when the needed help finding them.

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Clay, the creator of the Missouri Compromise had a new plan to end the deadlock over California.In September of 1850 Congress finally adpoted Clays Plan.

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For the next three years , Congress debated what to do about slavery in the territories gained from Mexico. As a compromise the South proposed a bill that would extend the Missouri Compromise all the way to the Pacfic.

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The gag rule kept the slavery debate out of congress for 10 years unitl James Polk became president. Pennsylvania represntative David Wilmot added an amendment. Southerns in congress strongly opposed Wilmot's amendment and maintained that congress had no right to decide where slaveholders could take their property.

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Slaveholders demanded that congress pass a fugitive slave law to help them recapture their property.The gag rule kept the lavery issue out of congress for ten years .

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John Quincy Adams predicted that the conrest for slavery was over.Rather than to confront this question , Congress voted in 1836, to table , all anti-slavery petitions. Outraged abolitionists called this the gag rule.

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The Missouri Compromsie of 1820 admitted Missouri to the Union and Maine as a free state.It also drew an imaginary line across the Louisiana Purchase at latitude 36,30'