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Banned slavery in any land taken from Mexico.
Imp: Shifted balance of power towards the Northern states. |
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Series of laws that appeased both the north and south over disputes pertaining to land taken from Mexico.
Imp: California entered as a free state, New Mexico and Utah not states yet, etc. |
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Allowed slave catchers to find and capture escaped slaves and bring them back.
Imp: Free blacks were often not exempt. |
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| Free-Soiler (Free Soil Party) |
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Member of the Free Soil Party, a short-lived political group.
Imp: Promoted anti-slavery, believed that free men working was an economical/morally superior system. |
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The people elect people to enact decisions that they want done.
Imp: Closely associated with republicanism. |
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Opened Kansas and Nebraska to settlement.
Imp: Led opposition to form Republican party. |
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Member of the political party known for denying any knowledge of anything when asked.
Imp: Despised Roman Catholics in general. |
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Work should be done by free people willing to work.
Imp: Was the North's idea of correct work, as opposed to slavery in the south. |
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Series of political battles between anti-slavery people and pro-slavery people
Imp: Sowed the seeds for the civil war |
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Dred Scott sued for the right to be free.
Imp: Decision that blacks, slave or free, could not be citizens. |
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| John Brown & Harpers Ferry |
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John Brown's rebellion occured at Harper's Ferry, located in NE West Virginia.
Imp: US Arsenal taken by rebels |
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| Antebellum (before the war) Southern Nationalism |
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| Belief that the South relied on slavery, and that it was a part of South culture. |
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11 States withdrawing from the Union.
Imp: Dude that's like half the states of the time seriously though |
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Proposed document as to whether or not Kansas should be a free or slave state.
Imp: Was the focus of a major national crisis. |
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