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Senator Andrew Butler took offence to the words of Charles Sumner, so he had Preston Brooks violently beat him with a cane, showing corruption in the Senate.
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John Brown led a group of abolitionists in the bloody killing of five pro-slavery men in Kansas.
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The Dred Scott Decision ultimately declared that slaves were not citizens and could not hold court, and that the government could not regulate slavery in the territories.
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Hinton Rowan Helper published his novel to attack slavery using the ideas from the previously released Uncle Tom's Cabin
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John Brown led a raid in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, attempting to start a slave revolt, but his plans failed.
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The Election of 1860 was one that had 4 candidates running for their own parties, but Abraham Lincoln came out as the victor.
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Shortly after Lincoln's election, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the United States.
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Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated after South Carolina had alread seceded, with more states to follow.
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An attack at Fort Sumter in South Carolina led to much fighting at the remains of the fort in the beginning of the Civil War.
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The Trent Affair was when a ship carrying two Confederate diplomats was intercepted by a Union ship
