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-Missouri applied for statehood (upset slave/free state balance)

-Henry Clay helped two sides reach a compromise

-To avoid future problems, slavery prohibited in the Louisiana Territory

-Learned the importance of maintaining the balance of free/slave states

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Andrew Jackson was elected as president

Jackson supported the tariff

North wanted protective tariffs because they wanted to make more off of exports

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written by vice president

claimed it was a state right to declare a law

threatened the unity of U.S.A

Massachusetts's Senator Daniels debated Calhoun's stances

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Congress passed another tariff in 1832, which SC nullified

John C stepped down from vice president to be a SC senator

President andrew urged congress to pass a force bill

other southren states would follow sc lead in supporting states rights

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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalogo gave western land to US, comepleted the Manifest Destiny

The debated over slave/free status starts with the discovery of gold in Cali

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henry clay persuaded congress to pass the Compromise of 1850, which had 5 parts

1. California entered as a free a state

2. slave trade outlawed in D.C.

3. Organized remaining land ceceded from Mexico in 2 parts, Utah + New Mexico

4. Pay texas 10 mililon for giving up land claim

5. strengthen the existing Fugitive Slave Act

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Written in respones to Fugitive slave law

increased sympathy for fugitive slaves

second most popular book

southerners were outraged by its exaggerations

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there were urget demands to organize the western territories as a result of gold rush

wanted to create a trans-contenintal railroad

kanas was in the northern part of the Louisiana territory -because of missouri compromise, it could not be a slave state

36 30' law of missouri compromise was repealed

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northern abolitiionist and southern slaveholders moved to kanas

they began fighting with other over popular sovereignty

the republican party was formed

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dred scott was a slave who was taken into free territory and sued to maintain freedom

supreme court decides AA are not citizens and cannon't sue the court

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john brown wanted to arm slaves for a slave rebellion

failed miserably at acquiring weapons

heightened sectionalism because:

southerners were scared of abolitionists and freed slaves

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comes from states rights

the USA has a confederation of states, not union

says that states have more power than federal Gov