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Westard expansion

Missouri applied for statehood which upset

slave/free state balance in the senate

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A tax on imported goods

Andrew jackson was elected as president in 1828 and reelected in 1832

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Written by the vice president John c calhoun

He stepped down from vice president and became a SC Senator President Andrew jackson urged congress

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Treaty of Guadalupe -Hidalgo gave western land to

The united states ,completed Manifest Destiny,Which was the belief that U.S was destined to expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the pacific

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Henry clay persuaded congress to pass the Compromise of 1850

California entered as a free state

Slave trade outlawed in washington D.C

Organize the remaining land cecdded from

Pay taxes 10 million$ for giving up lands

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Written in response to the fugitive slave Law

Increased sympathy for fugitive slaves

Second most popular book

Southerns were outraged by its exaggerations cocerning slaverey

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Northern abolitionists and southern slaveholders moved to kansas

They began fighting with each other over popular sovereignty

The Republican party was formed

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Dred scott was a slave who was taken into free territory

Dred scott felt that he was free since he lived in a free territory

Supreme court decides African Americans are not citizens

Went on to say that scott was property

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John Brown a white man, wanted to arm slaves for a slave rebellion

Failed miserably at acquiring weapons

Heightened sectionalism because

southerns were scared

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Comes from states rights

The USA has a confederation of states not a union

Says that states have more power than the federal government

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The nominee was Abraham Linhcoln

But this was prompted in S.C

After Lincoln won the election south carolina

called a special convention

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This was a territoral organic act that created terriotories of kansas and nebraska