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Unit 7: Antebellum

Across
the idea of voiding and not following national laws within a state.
legislation passed by Congress in 1820 by which Maine entered the Union as a free state, Missouri entered the Union as a slave state, and slavery was prohibited north of the southern border of Missouri in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase land.
a series of roads, houses, river crossings, and people who helped southern slaves, mainly from the border states, escape to the North .
legislation passed by Congress by which California entered the Union as a free state, slave trading was ended in the District of Columbia, Texas gave up its claims to New Mexico in exchange for money, residents of the territories of New Mexico and Utah would be able to determine whether they wanted slavery, and a stronger Fugitive Slave Act was enacted.
A law passed as part of the compromise of 1850,which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states.
Down
the ability o f the people of an area to decide upon an issue, such as whether they would allow slavery .
a document issued by a state con vention in 1850 that accepted the Compromise of 1850 but agreed to resist if the North did not live up to its obligations or if it hindered slavery .
1854 legislation that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and that con tained a clause on popular sovereignty that negated the Compromise of 1850.
one who wants to do away with something, particularly slavery in the 1800s.
a tax on imported goods.