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The Coming of The War
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8th Grade
05/12/2011

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The Missouri Compromise
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their were 11 free states and 11 slave states, and Missouri wanted to enter as a slave state and that would throw off the Senates balance. SO Missouri would enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state. A line would be drawn at the 36 degrees 30 minutes north.
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Sectionalism
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people began to feel loyal to their state or section rather than to the country as a whole
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Popular Sovereignty
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the idea that a new territory should decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery in there territory
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Free soil party
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supported no slaver, free speech, free labor, &free men

their main goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories, and were not abolitionists
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Clay vs. Calhoun
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Clay wanted a compromise to save the union. He is called the great compromiser because he threatened the south saying they would secede themselves from the us if they couldnt arrange a agreement
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Daniel Webster
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did not believe in slavery
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Compromise of 1850
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Henry Clay became too sick to argue for compromise, Stephan Douglas took up his job. He argued in the favor that all citizens must return all runaway slaves or they would be fined 1000$ and be jailed for 6 months
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