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Maine free state, no slavery north of Missouri. Missouri becomes slave state
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No European colonization of Western Hemisphere -
Quincy Adams and Henry Clay defeat Jackson
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Spiritual Fervor that resulted in a prision/church reform, temperance movement, womens rights movement, and abolition of slavery
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James Polk is known for the Mexican-American war. He expanded the US territory
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Armed conflict between the countries
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5 bills passed by the US congress in 1850 that stopped a political confrontation between slave and free states, on the territories of the Mexican American war -
Passed by the congress on sept. 18th; northerners must help capture runaway slaves
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Mandated "popular sovereignty", allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery is allowed on new territory
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He was living in a free state and territory did not entitle a enslaved person their freedom
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Abraham Lincoln ran in the next election, he was soon to become the next president