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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president becoming the first Republican to win the presidency
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Congress to end the first of a series of crises concerning the extension of slavery.
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Five bills passed and was a four year conferntation between the slave states.
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created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement
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Brooks then decided to "punish" Sumner with a public beating
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an attemp by the white abolitionist to start an armed slave revolt in 1859
