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It was an attempt to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession territories; the area acquired from Mexico.
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This confirmed the right to choose whether a state wanted to be free or slave. It also would confirm through the Fugitive Slave Act that slaveowners could get their slaves back from the North.
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This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, told people of how evil and inhumane slavery was and why they should abolish it.
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This act allowed the Kansas and Nebraska territories the right to choose whether to be free or slave. Pro-slavery and Anti-slavery flooded in to the territories to force the territories to be what they wanted them to be.
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This was a small scale civil war in Kansas and became rally cry along with "Bleeding Sumner" for anti-slavery Northerners and new political party.
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A slave who lived with his owner shortly in free land sued to be a free man. The judges said he was not a citizen and could not sue.
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Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were fighting to be Senator of Illionois.Lincoln was against slavery, but said it was legal. He just didn't want it to expand.
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John Brown and his men attacked Harper's Ferry, dealing 4 casualties. His goal was to start a slave revolt in Virginia and end slavery. Obviously, it didn't work (as expected).
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This time round, Lincoln won. Quite immediately, the southern states started to secede.
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Lincoln informed the Confederate President that he was sending supplies to the fort. The South fired on them and the North surrendered because they were under-supplied. This started the war.
