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The state legislatures of both Kentuck and Virginia took resolutions written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. These resolutions talked about the Aliens and Sedition Acts about the freedom of expression. These helped establish states rights.
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This convention was during war of 1812 and a group of federalists met in Hartford Conneticut to discuss their problems with the country. There was a lot of talk about dearing the Republicns would take over the country.
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This dealed with the land that came from the Louisiana Purchase. People had to decided how to make the new states because they were threatening the balance of slave and non-slave states. Missouri became a slave state and Maine became free.
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The annexation of Texas started the real conflict. This war was fought between the United Statess and Mexico over the lands that Mexico had. The U.S won and took Mexican land.
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The was passed by the United States Congress and was a protective tariff. This was made to protect industry in the north. The south says it effected their economy and they didn't like it.
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This happened after the Tariff of Abominations and the people in South Carolina wanted to desoolute from the Union. They said that the constitution said if things were unconstitutional then they have to right to change it somehow.
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The Anti-Slavery abolitionists said that they would stop slavery. This act did not work until much later when slaves are freed.
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57 people from Texas communities had drafted a declaration of independence from Mexico and it wsa put into action about 5 months later.
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James was the 11th president of the United States. He was from the democrat party.
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A proviso submitted by David Wilmot (democrat). The main idea of this proviso was to not have any slavery in the states that cam from the land the U.S had taken from Mexico.
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California tried to become a states once it was made known that there was gold there. The south feared that hwen California became a states if it was a free states it would change the balance and make the slave states the minority.
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This law was made so that if a fugitive slave was found he could go on trial, but if he lost he had to go back to the south to his owner.
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The Lincoln-Douglas debates were debates that people would come and watch and both Lincoln and Douglas would give speeches. Douglass however ended up in a position where his speeches started to contradict eachother. Critical debates ere over slavery.
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This book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book became very popular once published and it told the stories of runaway slaves.
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Douglas had made a bill dividing the land west of Missouri into Kansas and Nebraska. He said that they should be popular sovierty. That idea after debate passed and peopel rushed into the area to try and win the votes for or against slavery. This Act put the nation closer to war.
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This party was made by anti-slavery activists.
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The open violence in Kansas spread ot the Free State of Lawrence and Border Ruffians destroyed two newspaper offices and burnded a hotel. They also destroyed and ransacked homes.
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Charles Sumner was a senator from Massachusets and was against slavery. After he delivered a speech he was almost killed by being visiously beaten with a can by Senator Preston rooke of South Carolina. Senator Preston was proslavery.
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In southeast Kansas, John Brown and some of his Free States volunteers killed 5 men that were along the Pottawatomie Creek. The men that were killed were involved in Pro Slavery but they didn't actually own any slaves.
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Dred Scott was a slave that sued for his freedom and for his wife and two kids freedom. After a long time the decision was made that he could not be free
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This Constitution was proposed by Kansas and protected to rights of slaveholders.
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This was John Brown's last raid because after this he was given the death sentence. Basically Brown got a bunch of people together to go to the arsenal at Haper's Ferry and seize the weapons and build an army for the anti-slavery people. A few raiders were killed and the others were captured by the U.S Arny.
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This was the presidential election between Stephen Douglas (democrat), Abraham Lincoln (republican), John Bell (constitutional union), and John Breackinridge (southern democrat). Lincoln won.
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This party was the fourth political party made. The people who mad this wanted to avoid disagreement over the slavery issue because they didn't want the splitting up of the nation.
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The democrat party split over the issue of slavery. It split into north democrats (popular sovierty) and the south democrats (extend slavery south).
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