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    The Kansas-Nebraska Act

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    The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was a controversial legislation that opened Kansas and Nebraska to white settlement‚ repealed the Compromise of 1850‚ and led opponents to form the Republican party. This piece of legislation was introduced in Congress that revived the issues of the expansion of slavery. The Compromise of 1850 was a series of measures passed by Congress to resolve sectional tensions. Congress admitted California to the Union as a free state. And organize the territories of New Mexico

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    Slave Act was put into place‚ this Slave Act gave the goverments the power to seize and return escaped slaves and had penalties for anyone who tried to help the slaves escape. The resistance of the act later led to the aprovale of the Slave Act of 1850 which gave more aid to seizing and returning run away slaves and made punishments for anyone who tried to help the runaway slaves harsher. In 1864 both of the Slave Act laws were repealed by

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    not a result of reconstruction Election of the blacks 15. Which of the following was not a result of the compromise of 1877 The democrats took back the house and senate 16. Which of the following best describes the situation in Kansas in the 1850s Led to

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    Celia A Slave Analysis

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    By 1850‚ during the time of Celia’s trial‚ Missouri had already been the focus of the national slavery debate for a while‚ and because the many key problems of the slave debate were unsettled by the Missouri Compromise‚ many residents of agriculture-based

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    The American economy has boosted‚ in such a way where positive and negative impacts can reflect on how the society is handled and seen as. New political ideas and inventions come to place‚ and our economy starts to shift and handle bigger changes. As a result‚ America used and developed new customs to help progress and grow to our necessities. One of the greatest impacts of technological inventions was the railroad. Railroads were the nation’s first “big business” and was a source

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    The United States as a whole was divided before the Civil War‚ over the dispute of whether slavery should be allowed or not after the Mexican American war ended in 1848. After the Mexican American war citizens of the North and the South began to dispute the issue of slavery and tensions started to rise. There were many things proposed that were proposed to help the dispute over slavery such as the Wilmot Provisio which would close off California‚ Utah and New Mexico off from slavery. However it

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    later with the Mexican War‚ the question of whether new states admitted to the union would be slave or free. The Missouri Compromise passed in 1820 made a rule that prohibited slavery in states from the former Louisiana Purchase. The Compromise of 1850

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    it allowed slavery to continue. Although it was never determined‚ the people‚ particularly Southerners‚ took it upon themselves to assume that since it was unclear‚ they were to decide the fate of slavery with popular sovereignty. The Compromise of 1850 broke apart the Nebraska and Kansas territory into two separate territories. The Kansas territory was

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    17‚ 18‚ and 19 Study Guide 12/5/12 1. The presidents from these chapters (list on the back of your Chapter 19 outline) a. Harrison (1841) – died after 4 weeks in office; elected from the Whig party because leader Henry Clay and Daniel Webster planned on controlling his presidential power. b. Tyler- not a Whig more of a democrat; passed a law ending the independent treasury system‚ c. Polk- four point mission: lower the tariff‚ restore the independent treasury‚ clear up Oregon border issue‚

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    During the Antebellum period‚ the North and South were divided into two sections. Antebellum Northerners were attempting to modernize the economy in the North while in the south the plantation complex was the economic form. The antebellum North and Antebellum South were more different due to the way they felt about slavery. The North and South differed greatly in how they wanted the newly admitted states to be during Westward expansion. The North opposed slavery‚ so after the Mexican-American

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