... States, where he wanted to pursue a program of voluntary and gradual emancipation. "On 6 March 1862 Lincoln asked Congress to pass its first official act against slavery out of the context of the battle field: He requested "pecuniary aid" to any state "which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery."" ... the Confederates made a fatal mistake. This aggressive move in Kentucky convinced the other border states that their rights were safer under the protection of the North. Lincoln and his attempts to convince them illustrated the unwillingness of the North to coerce their fellow states. ...

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... which declared that the settlers in a territory had the same rights as states in the Union to establish or disestablish slavery as a purely local matter. The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 legislated this doctrine. In Kansas Territory, years of pro and anti-slavery violence and political conflict erupted; the Congressional House of Representatives voted to admit Kansas as a ... rights" was an ideology formulated and applied as a means of advancing slave state interests through federal authority. As historian Thomas L. Krannawitter points out, the "Southern demand for federal slave protect...

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... a slave uprising (Harrison 3)". After this happened many Southerners became very fearful of their own slaves and started putting together an army for their own protection. "During the 1860's was when the abolitionists crusade reached the height of its power and saw the achievement of most of its objectives, and after ... being added to the Union, the Missouri Compromise was repealed. The anti-slavery people of the north replaced it completely with the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Which gave the states the authority to the people themselves to decide whether or not they were to have free or slave...

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... , especially in the South; there is constant agitation over the new slave law; and finally, Southerners were upset over the Uncle Tom's Cabin novel. (Hume, Video Lecture 5) The Kansas-Nebraska Act of the 1850's proved to be the next big watershed of the time. Steven Douglas takes his popular sovereignty issue and implements it in Kansas and Nebraska as he did ... used to help the Confederacy where independence could be formed against the North. The Panic of 1857 sectionalized the economy. Senator Seward argued for a higher tariff because northern industry needed protection and if they di...

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... crisis in the South. South Carolina, as well as many other Deep South states, was threatening to leave the union. Many of the more conservative Southerners said that an "overt act" against the section is the only reason for them to secede. By the time of the election the secession fervor throughout the South was starting to overtake the conservative faction ... . The party adopted a platform that was very offensive to a few groups. The Peace Democrats were mocked by the adoption of a continuation of the war plank on the platform. A plank regarding protection of civil liberties was aimed ...

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