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For better explanation, use AP EXAM PAST AND PRESENT book pg.118

-Mexican War reopened the issue of slavery by adding more territories -Compromise of 1850 brought the issue forefront -fugitive slave law -Harriet Beecher Stowe's //Uncle Tom's Cabin// -The Kansas Nebraska Act: allowed people of the territories to decide on slavery -the attacks of abolitionist John Brown at Pottawatomie Creek and Harper's Ferry -southerners' belief that slavery was a "positive good" -Dred Scott decision earlier stating that slaves are properties -Lincoln vs. Douglass in the race for Illinois Senate seat over the issue of slavery and secession -Lincoln's Inaugural Address -1860 election splintered between 4 regional candidates -election of Abraham Lincoln