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Several founders critiqued slave trade for violating natural rights. Also, in a draft of the constitution Thomas Jefferson attacked slave trade harshly calling "cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights in life and liberty in the persons of a distant people".

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The north had poor soil and short growing season, so if they had slaves it wouldn't make sense. But, the south had good soil for farming and the climate was flat and warm, so they had slaves to keep up farming.

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The words slave, slavery, etc were never present in the Constitution, they referred slaves as to/as persons. Some people believed that slavery was wrong and that it would eventually die out, so they didn't want to permanently put the word slavery in the Constitution.

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After the resolution, some of the british land was now the American land. Through negotiations and war, America got 7 new territories.

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The northwest ordinance creates 3-5 new states from the Northwest Territory. Slavery is banned in these new states

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The Three-Fifths Compromise made enslaved people would be counted for representation and the three-fifths of enslaved people per state.

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When the cotton gin was created, it increased the demand for slave labor in the south.

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Thomas Jefferson negotiated with the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from the French Leader Napoleon. This purchase nearly doubled the United States in size at the time.

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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark went from St. Louis Missouri to explore the Louisiana Territory. The group called themselves the "Corps of Discovery".

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The Slave Insurrection Clause gave the executive power suppress "riots or insurrections" to maintain law and order. This act was signed by Thomas Jefferson in 1808, but the U.S. Congress made this act allowable the moment of January 1, 1808.

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Northern and Southern Congressmen passed in act in 1808 to end Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. This act stopped slave trade, however it did not stop slavery.

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The spanish was in possession of Florida for a long time until America was negotiating and fronting to buy their land, which America ended up doing.

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The constitution kept the amount of slave states and free states equal, but had an issue when Missouri wanted to join the Union. The congress ended up allowing Missouri to join the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

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After Texas threatened to become a territory of Britain, after being denied admission to the Union in 1836, Congress annexed Texas.

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After sharing the Oregon Territory for years, President Polk negotiated with Britain to divide the Oregon Country into two parts.

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Following the end of the Mexican - American war, America acquired the Mexican Cession, a large land that compromises the southwestern region of the United States.

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Southern and Northern Congressmen allow California to enter the Union as a free state while Utah and New Mexico would decide by popular sovereignty.

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The Fugitive Slave Clause made it easier for slave holders to bring back their slaves who escaped and ran away from the south to the north.

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In order to build a railroad from New Orleans westward California, congress negotiated with Mexico for a small stri of land southern Ariziona and New Mexico.

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Both Kansas and Nebraska would decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. Leading to bleeding Kansas.