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The Fugitive Slave Law was an act pushed out to rightfully hunt down fled slaves, and to return them back to their owners. -
This act was also prior to the conflict of slavery. This created two new territories and introduced popular sovereignty. -
The Dred Scott Decision was one of the significant events leading prior to the Civil War, and the rise in Abraham Lincoln to presidency. This decision was made so that any black or African Americans could not be a US citizen. -
Abraham Lincoln makes his first appearance in taking notice upon the problem of slavery with his speech fragment in 1857, and later continued in his opening speech in 1858. He identifies such problem as "a moral and a political issue that threatened the continued existence of the United States.", and also quotes that "A house divided against itself can not stand ... It will become all one thing, or all the other."