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Small groups of people were protesting the existence of slavery this then led to anti-slavery societies creating a movement through speech and publication which in turn revealed the horrors of slavery to the national consciousness which lead the southern to defend their way of life which led to the northern and southern to debate their moral acceptability of slavery. -
The authors of the constitution did not know how to handle slavery.
-Three fifths compromise slaves were counted as 3/5 of a person.
-Fugitive slaves were returned to their owners. -
Manufactoring was no longer done at home small factories started. The south provided north with the materials and supplies to make producations. -
The Cotten Gin was invented, making it easier to clean cotton. more cotton could be ready for the manufacturing north. -
In 1803 the US purchased 827,000 square miles of land. This allowed the US to control the Mississippi river. there was a lot of celebrate in congress over whether this land should have slavery. -
Proposed by henry clay stated that Maine would become a free state and Missouri would join the union as a slave state. slavery was not allowed above the 36° 30° parallel which was mission's southern border. -
Small groups of people were protesting the existence of slavery this then led to anti-slavery societies creating a movement through speech and publication which in turn revealed the horrors of slavery to the national consciousness which lead the southern to defend their way of life which led to the northern and southern to debate their moral acceptability of slavery. -
This was a three-day event. A group of six slaves went from plantation to plantation in Virginia killing about 60 white people after this stricter laws were put in place on slaves. -
Southern states wereunhappy with excessive tax and they were considering leaving the union.President Jackson called on henry clay to help with the ordinance of nullification. -
The United States sent to troops to disputed territory between Mexico and Texas. There was a bit of conflict. President Polk had the Congress declare war. At the end of this war the Tready of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. The US paid Mexico 15 million dollars for California, nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and parts of Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming. -
David Wilmot of pennsylvania proposed part of an anti slavery amendment that divided the nation over the future of slavery,