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The compromise of 1850 had a Fugitive Slave Act which allowed officials to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave, denied fugitives the right to a trial, and required all citizens to help capture runaway slaves. Since this forced northerners to support the slave system, many northerners were angry. -
Things that lead to the civil war
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repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. -
the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas -
Senator Charles Sumner was assaulted in the U.S. Senate by Congressman Preston Brooks after a speech by Sumner attacked a relative of Brooks -
sued for freedom, arguing that since he had lived in a free state and a free territory, he was a free man -
Lincoln argued against the spread of slavery while Douglas maintained that each territory should have the right to decide whether it would become free or allow slavery. -
He lead a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery. -
The 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago nominated Lincoln, a moderate former one-term Whig Representative from Illinois