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They were determining whether or not the new territories that would be admitted as states would be free or slave -
Fugitive Slave Act required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves. -
This book was written to show the injustice of Slavery. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed which allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves using popular sovereignty. -
Pro-slavery Congressman Preston Brooks attacked Charles Sumner after he had given a speech attacking the pro-slavery forces for the violence occurring in Kansas. -
Dred Scott lost his case proving that he should be free due to being a slave while living in a free state. -
The Lecompton Constitution was created allowing Kansas to enter as a slave state. However, pro-slavery forces attempted to stop the Constitution and was soon rejected by a vote in Kansas. -
John Brown was a radical abolitionist he led a group to Harper's Ferry, Virginia, to raid the arsenal. -
Abraham Lincoln was elected President. South Carolina, along with 6 other states, seceded from the Union. South Carolina warned Abraham Lincoln that this would happen if he was elected. The South had began to become more powerful and wanted to make sure that slavery would not be extended to other states/territories. -
Southern states began to form a separate Confederacy against the union.