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Missouri entered as a slave state, Maine entered as a slave state. Raises tensions as some do not want Missouri to be a slave state. Missouri could have more representation.

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The north wants protective tariffs because they had factories and wanted to make more money off of it. Tension rose because the South did not want the protective tariffs because it would raise the prices of manufactured goods.

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Claimed it was a state right to declare a law unconstitutional and nullify (void) through a special convention. This threatened the unity of the US and the exclusive right of the supreme court.

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A treaty gave western land to the US, completed manifest destiny. The debate over slave/free status starts with the discovery of gold in Cali.

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The compromise entailed; California enter as a free state, slave trade(not slavery) outlawed in Washington D.C, organize the remaining land ceceded from Mexico into two large territories, pay Texas, strengthen the existing Fugitive Slave act. This could cause some issues in westward expansion.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stove- 1852

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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stove- 1852

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Written in response to the Fugitive Slave Law. This outraged Southerners by it's "exaggerations" concerning Slavery.

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Urgent demands to organize western territories as a result of the Gold Rush. Northeners wanted it through unorganzed Nebraska, Southerners wanted it through Texas.

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Northern abolitionists and southern slaveholders moved to Kansas. They fought over popular sovereignty.

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He was a slave who was taken into free territory. Scott felt that that he was free since he lived in a free territory and sued to maintain freedom. Court decided that african american are not citizens and therefor cannot sue. Went on to say that Scott was property and could b taken anywhere. This went against constitution.

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John Brown, a white man, wanted to arm slaves for a slave rebellion.He failed miserably at acquiring weapons. Heightened sectionalism. Southerners were scared of abolitionists and freed slaves.

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The election prompted South Carolina to secede from the union. Republican Abraham Lincoln campaigned on a platform of 'free soil'.

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Comes from state rights. The USA has a confederation of states, not a union. Says the states has more power than the federal government. This caused some issues.