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This act created a system for admitting new states and banned slavery in the Northwest Territory. It was an early precedent for the federal government to stop the expansion of slavery, which created a change and difference for slave free states. -
Counted 3/5 slaves for the count of the population of a state.
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This law made it a crime to help an enslaved person escape from their owners. This also included slave catchers to help get the slaves back to their owners. -
This was Eli Whitney's invention that separated cotton from the seeds. Cotton gin increased the foundation of slavery.
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This stopped the importation of new slaves, it led to a massive increase in the internal domestic slave trade.
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This temporarily solved a problem over the spread of slavery by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to keep the balance of power in the Senate.
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A enslaved preacher, led a violent revolt in Virginia resulting in the deaths of around 60 white people. The rebellion worried Southern slaveholders, leading to harsher slave codes
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South Carolina got mad about high federal taxes and tried to legally cancel those laws within their state, claiming they had the right to do so. President Andrew Jackson threatened to send troops to collect the money.
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A political idea in 1846 that tried to stop the spread of slavery by banning it in any lands the U.S. might take from Mexico. Even though it failed to become a law, it made the North and South fight over slavery.
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Was the agreement that ended the war between the U.S. and Mexico in 1848. Mexico was forced to sell over half of its land including all of California and the Southwest to the United States for $15 million.
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was a set of laws passed to calm the fight over slavery in new U.S. lands. The deal made California a free state and said new territories could vote on slavery themselves.
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was a book about an enslaved man named Tom that showed people how cruel slavery was. It turned many northerners against slavery and made Southerners mad. -
Canceled the old anti-slavery border and let people in those territories vote on whether to allow slavery. This led to fighting in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups.
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A violent fight in the 1850s where settlers who supported slavery and those who opposed it literally fought for control of the Kansas territory.
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That no black person could ever be a U.S. citizen, so they had no rights in court. The Supreme Court also said the government could not stop slavery from expanding into new territories.
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Won the election in 1860 without getting any southern state's vote because his party wanted to stop slavery from growing. This made the South believe their way of life was over.