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Prohibited the importation of more slaves into Missouri
Required that children born to slaves after Missouri's admission would be freed at age 25 Did not pass but set out a plan for the gradual emancipation in Missouri -
Spain gives up east and west Florida to the U.S
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- Missouri to be admitted as a slave state
- Maine to be admitted as a free state
- Any state admitted above the 36'30 line with Missouri as an exception would be a free state while states below would be slave states
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Showed that the U.S. Constitution overruled State Laws (Supremacy clause) In Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the conflict between the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and a Pennsylvania state law that prohibited the removal of Black people from the state into slavery. The Court held that the federal Fugitive Slave Act superseded the state law, but it also stated that states were not required to enforce federal law
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- To ban slavery in new territories from the Republic of Mexico
- Rejected twice
- Forced politicians to take pro or anti-slavery sides
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- Mexican cession
- Gave up land area over 1 million sq km
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6 Key Provisions:
1. Admission of California as a Free State
2. The creation of the territories of Utah - popular sovereignty to decide on slavery
3. Territory of New Mexico - popular sovereignty
4. Texas agreed to a 36'30 parallel in exchange for debts being paid
5. Slave trade banned in Washington
6. Fugitive Slave Law strengthened -
Stephen Douglas transcontinental railroad
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- Repealed the Missouri Compromise
- Brought in two additional territories (Kansas & Nebraska)
- Had popular sovereignty in the new territories
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- needed to decide whether Kansas was a free or slave state
- Popular sovereignty due to Kansas-Nebraska Bill
- People from both sides came to Kansas to sway the vote
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4 Key Takeaways
1. Black people in the US cannot be citizens
2. Black people had no right to bring a case to court
3. Slaveowners could take their property anywhere garnered by US Federal Law
4. Congress has no authority to restrict rights such as rights to property by the Constitution -
- For the United States Senate seat in Illinois
- 7 debates
- Racial equality (Douglas only "white men")
- Abolitionism (Douglas accuses Lincoln)
- Terrestrial expansion
- Popular sovereignty
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Democratic candidates - Stephen Douglas, John Breckinridge Constitutional Union - John Bell Republican candidates - Abraham Lincoln, Seward, Hannibal Hamilton
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- Proposed 6 amendments to the Constitution to protect slavery for southern states
- Backed by Breckinridge
- Republicans in Congress did not want a compromise so it failed
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- Proposed to ensure that institutions established in individual states (slavery) were protected from abolition by Congress
- Congress passed the amendment but it wasn't ratified by individual states - never became law
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suspension of habeas corpus
blockade proclamations -
- Made foreign goods more expensive
- Allowed American manufacturers to raise their prices
- Forced American consumers to pay income tax
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- Follow fugitive slave law
- No plans to ban slavery
- No use of military force
- Minority can not make decisions on behalf of the majority -Will not accept secession
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- All southerners to declare themselves to be Confederate citizens or leave or face arrest
- Allowed the seizure of the property of absentee Unionists, or property which might be. handed to absentee Unionist, such as via the deceased
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- Union ignored the ultimation from the Confederates
- provoke them
- Confederates fired, start of the war
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Have 160 acres of western land, unaccepted and publically owned, to anyone who would cultivate it for 5 years. Anyone willing to pay $9.25 an acre would buy a homestead
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Union victory. The South's defeat at Shiloh ended the Confederacy's hopes of blocking the Union advance into Mississippi and doomed the Confederate military initiative in the West. With the loss of their commander, Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, in battle, Confederate morale plummeted.
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- Designated the 32nd parallel as the initial transcontinental route
- Provided government bonds to fund the project and large grants of land for rights-of-way
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Taking land from Native Americans to give to states
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requiring all male citizens and applicants for citizenship between 20 and 35 and unmarried men 35 to 45 to register for a military draft.
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Gave Confederate armies the power to seize what they needed in terms of supplies
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Enabled state officials to collect 10% of certain crops, such as corn and wheat to help the war effort
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- Lincoln vs Mclannen
- Lincoln won: 212 - 21 electoral vote and 55% of the popular vote
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All persons born in the United States, regardless of colour and race should be citizens of the United States as is enjoyed by white citizens
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- Outlined conditions for re-entry of former confederate states
- Required writing new constitution with voting rights for African Americans
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- Divided the South into 5 military districts
- Each district has a military governor in which Radical Reconstruction would be carried out
- Meant real pressure for full civil rights
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- To limit Johnsons' power as commander-in-chief by allowing him to issue military orders only through leading Generals
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Cabinet members can be removed by the Senate
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Made it a federal crime to deprive citizens of civil rights
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- Showed that the Republicans were split as Grant ran against another Republican
- Dems were too disorganised
- Grant swept
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- Dozens in LA killed by whites
- no one held responsible
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- 16 massacred by armoured whites
- No one held responsible
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- Democrat (Tiden) won the popular vote over Rutherford
- But electoral ballots were disputed in FL, LA, Oregon and SC
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- Bourbon Democrats (more conservative, pro-business) gained control of the House
- Able to challenge the Republicans on the National level
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- Guaranteed African Americans equal treatment
- Not enforced by Grant (didn't think he had the power to)
- Struck down as unconstitutional in 1883 by the Supreme Court
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- Deadlock for the 1876 election, a special electoral commission was formed for resolution.
- Informal agreement between Sourther Dems and allies of Republican Rutherford to give the votes to Rutherford in exchange for removing federal troops from the South
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Withdrawal of troops from the South