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This caused an imbalanced congress. There was now 12 slave states and 11 free states.

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The second great Awaking happened causing the "gag" rule. This prohibited the talk of slavery for 10 years.

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slaves were starting to revolt and escape. Nat Turner's Rebellion was the last large scale slave revolt. Hundreds of slaves were freeing from the south and heading to the north.

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This compromise mad southerners furious. They felt it was attacking them by having more free states and the fugitive slave act. Northerners were also mad because they were now forced to help capture run away slaves.

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This mad both southerners and northerners mad. Southerners felt that there was not enough trust that the slaves who were caught would be brought back to them. Northerners did not want to take part in catching slaves.

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This brought the U.S. the closest they have been to a civil war. This made Nebraska and Kansas a state and that they get to vote for being a free state or slave state. People all around the U.S. came to these new states.

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Pro slavery and abolitionist came into Kansas to try and make it a free state/slave state. There was lots of tension so fights broke out. Killing many innocent people.

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Sumner said that Douglas has planned for Kansas to become a slave state. This out raged Preston brooks so he then beat Sumner up. This sparked northerners to abolish slavery.

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This was one of the most controversial rulings ever. It angered northerners pushing them closer to the

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This sparked the abolishment of slavery. Lincoln creates a new party for anti slavery which helped him win the president election later on.

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He made the abolishment of slavery happen, but also pushed us into a civil war.

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The south was outraged that Lincoln got elected president because they new he would abolish slavery. They decided to leave the union which caused the civil war.