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Subsections in this chapter are The Dred Scott Decision, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, John Brown’s Raid, The Election of 1860, and The South Secedes. Primary source features are excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, as well as an excerpt from “South Carolina Ordinance of Secession.”