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Compromises

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Missouri Compromise "Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.
Georgia Platform Statement issued by Georgia's government when it elected to support the Compromise of 1850. It stated that, while the state supported the compromise, it would not hesitate to resist any effort by Congress to outlaw slavery in the new territories.
Alexander Stephens Georgia Congressman who supported the Georgia Platform in 1850 and fought against secession in 1861 but eventually became the Vice President of the Confederate States of America.
Election of 1860 Presidential Election that ended with Abraham Lincoln as President, the Southern states began to secede forming the Confederate States of America with Jefferson Davis as their President.
States Rights The belief that all powers not specifically given to the national government in the U.S. Constitution or specifically denied to the states remain with the with the states.
Sectionalism Extreme loyalty given to a particular region in the belief that their ideas and interest must be protected from other regions.
Shermans March To the Sea the most destructive campaign against a civilian population during the Civil War (1861-65), began in Atlanta on November 15, 1864, and concluded in Savannah on December 21, 1864.
Compromise of 1850 Allowed California to come into the Union as a free state. Other partsof the legislation created a stronger Fugitive Slave law, and allowed the people living in New Mexico and Utah to decide whether to allow slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act Undid the Missouri Compromise by allowing popular sovereignty north of the Missouri Compromise line.
Popular Sovereignty Allowing states to vote on the issue of slavery.
States’ rights the belief that all powers not specifically given to Congress or forbidden to the states in the U.S. Constitution belong to the states.
Dred Scott the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that blacks did not have citizenship and the rights that went with it and that slaves were property.
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