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Conway dies and his supporters formed a political alliance called the "Family."
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It started because of the banking controversy
Wison was convicted of murder and was dropped from his position in the legislature
He returned years later and tried to attack a bank critic with a knife -
The two banks served the needs of wealthy planters across the state but soon citizens accused both banks of curruption.
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The U.S. won the war anith the victory came the dream of "Manifest Destiny" and an enormous new piece of property called the Mexican Cession lands
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Southern politicians were unhappy about the California's petition to enter the nation as a free state and Henry Clay suggested four possible acts, which Congress debated for almost nine months
-Allow California to enter the Union as a slave state
-Discontinue the slave trade (not slavery itself) in the nation's capital
-let the new western territories decide the question of slavery for themselves
-strengthen the fugitive slave act -
It created the states of Kansas and Nebraska and allowing popular sovereignty on the issue of slavery, thereby annulling the limitations on slavery previously established by the Missouri Compromise.
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During the Civil War, the M&LR served as an important part of both Confederate and Union war efforts despite its middle section being incomplete. Prior to Federal occupation, the Confederate forces used the railroad’s machine shop at Hopefield to modernize rifles. The Confederates also frequently used the M&LR to transfer soldiers to Memphis
