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Abolitionist
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Person seeking legal end of slavery
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The Missouri Compromise 1820
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➢Applied for admission into the union as a slave state
➢Set off a debate (11 pro-slave and 11 slave states) ➢The Compromise: o Maine separated from Massachusetts and entered the union as a free state, Missouri enters the Union as a slave state o All other territories purchased in the Louisiana Purchase was closed to slavery |
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The Compromise of 1850
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➢ California joined the Union as a free state
➢ Mexican session was divided into territories of New Mexico and Utah to fallow popular soveirgnty: pro or anti, peoples choice |
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Fugitive Law
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Created so the Southerners could recover runaway slaves from north
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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➢Divide the remaining land of the Louisian Purchase into Kansas and Nebraska
➢“Bleeding Kansas”- slave owners and abolitionist wanted to gain these territories, small scale civil war |
