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It gave states the option to be a slave state or not and created stronger slave laws requiring citizens to help return escaped enslaved people. Which caused conflict within tension because the northerners didn’t want to return them. -
Allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery or not which caused conflict within the states -
Collision between pro-slavery and anti-slavery after the Kansas Nebraska act. Which severely divided and and damaged the country. -
Charles Sumner gave an anti-slavery speech making pro-slavery senators look bad. Preston Brooks then attacked him with a cane on the Senate floor. -
The Supreme Court decided that enslaved people were not citizens and that Congress couldn’t ban slavery -
Lincoln and Douglas debated slavery during the Senate race. This made licoln anti slavery leader which the south did not like. -
John Brown led a raid which failed trying to start a slave revolt. Which the south viewed as a attempted attack by northerners to ruin their way of life pushing the south closer to secession. -
Lincoln was elected as president without winning a single southern state. When licoln won the southerns saw it as a threat to slavery and started seceding the union.