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When new territories were aquired in the west, a lot of controversy came along with them. A big arguement was whether slavery should be aloud in these territories. This question formed many single goal parties like the Anti-Nebraska Whigs and Free Soilers. Compromises and acts were passed to help this issue like the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska Act.
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A Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century.
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Forbidded the House from considering any anti-slavery petitions.
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Henry Clay (whig) vs James Polk (Democrat)
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Texas was accepted into the Union in 1845, but gained its independence in 1836.
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Extended Texas Border, gave up 525,000 miles of land from utah all the way to nevada and arizona.
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The compromise that settled the dispute whether the newly gained territory from mexico should be free or slave states.
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Founded in the Northern states in 1854 by anti-slavery activists, modernizers, ex-Whigs, and ex-Free Soilers.
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Allowed people to vote on whether they wanted slavery in Kansas and Nebraska.
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Anti-slavery and Pro'slavery groups flooded in kansas to vote for whether the state should allow slavery or not. There was a lot of carnage and fighting due to the voting.
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Supreme Court ruled that a desendent of a free or non free slave is not automatically a citizen. Also said that the Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the territories.
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Abraham Lincoln (free-soiler) was elected. The south thought he was an abolitionist and 7 states succeeded due to his election.
