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missouri compromise of 1820
how to determine which statement would be alowed to have slavery and those that would be free states. to keep peace form the slavery between the louisiana territory there was one freestate and there was one slave state -
wilmot proviso
proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from thre war with mexico to make sure slavery did not expaned even more south this never became a law -
compromise of 1850
Henry clay was a big part of this act California entered as a free state To settle disagreement between free states and slave states. Congress was divided by the issues -
fugitive slave act
It was A law that let southerns to hunt down slaves that escaped to the north. There was a compromise that made California a free state The act was criticize in Harriet stones book They had the Congress involved -
Kansas Nebraska act
Introduced the idea of "popular severeighty" Law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery -
bleeding kansas
Pro slavery and antislavery settlers rushed into the Kansas territories, just west of Missouri to vote for the territorial legislature. There were more proslavery settlers than antislavery settlers in the territory but the proslavery forces did not want to risk losing the election. -
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Fred Scott v. sandford
Would violate the slave holders property rights protected by the fifth amendment -
Lincoln Douglas debates
The republicans charged that the democrats wanted to legalize slavery not only in all us territories but also in all the states. The two squarely addressed the nations most pressing issue the expansion of slavery