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One result of the climate in the Southeastern United States

slavery continued to grow as new agricultural products were introduced
the the

Event caused by the American belief in "Manifest Destiny"

The U.S. - Mexican War

Location of the "Plantation System" in America

The South

Dred Scott

former slave that was viewed as property of his owner in Missouri

Reason for lack of need of slaves in the North

its economy was not based on agriculture but industry instead

Reason for slaves escaping to Canada

The Fugitive Slave Act

The main goal of Manifest Destiny

to expand the U.S from the east all the way to the Pacific Ocean

Two well known abolitionists

William Lloyd Garrison;Frederick Douglass

Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850

Solutions for the North and South to admit new states into the Union

1845

Texas Annexation

Mexican Cession

the Southwest United States

Importance of Dred Scott decision

reopened the issue of slavery in America

30.8%

Percentage of Southerners that owned Slaves in 1850

Abolitionists

supporters of the Underground Railroad

All examples of American Expansion to the West

Louisiana Purchase;Texas Annexation;U.S. - Mexican War

A piece of writing that argued for the fighting slavery

"On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"

Feeling expressed by Frederick Douglass

Slavery was wrong

All people that tried to end slavery

John Brown;Henry David Thoreau;Abolitionists

Difference between Texas War for Independence and the U.S. - Mexican War

One was fought for independence, the other to gain land

Supreme Court case that denied Congress the power to regulate slavery in the territories

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Reason why abolitionists were against further Western expansion

they feared more slave states would be admitted

Sectionalism

increased the tensions between North and South

expansion of slavery into the Western territories

Issue addressed by the Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Compromise of 1850


Potato Famine

Reason for the 19th century immigration of Irish to America

Word tied closely to John C. Calhoun

Nullification