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US Civil War: Compromises, Acts, and the States' Rights Doctrine

Explore key events like the Missouri Compromise, Texas annexation, Wilmot Proviso, Lincoln-Douglas debates, Dred Scott decision, and more leading to the US Civil War and the debate over states' rights.

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US Civil War: Compromises, Acts, and the States' Rights Doctrine

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  1. Arguments of Civil War

  2. What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

  3. Maine would be free, Missouri would be slave; no slavery from that time on in any state north of Missouri’s southern border (36/30 latitude)Henry Clay created compromise

  4. How did the annexation of Texas impact the nation ?

  5. Arguments if states from territory would be free or slave; war against Mexico fought

  6. What was the Compromise of 1850?

  7. CA free; UT & NM vote to be free or slave (popular sovereignty); no slave trade in D.C and strict fugitive slave law

  8. What was the Wilmot Proviso?

  9. Bill proposed in Congress stating any land gained from Mexican American War would be free - no slavery. Bill was defeated.

  10. What was the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854?

  11. Nebraska territory divided into Nebraska and Kansas; each to vote on whether to be free or allow slavery

  12. How did Kansas become known as Bleeding Kansas?

  13. Violence connected to voting to be free or slave and John Brown uprising

  14. Why are the Lincoln-Douglas debates so famous?

  15. Slavery debated: House Divided speech given

  16. What was Dred Scott decision ?

  17. Supreme Court ruled Dred Scott is property and not free; Missouri compromise was unconstitutional as property was denied in states set as being free in compromise.Chief Supreme Court Justice was Roger Taney.

  18. What was states rights doctrine ?

  19. States decide issues for themselves,including if they will be free or slave states; 10th amendment A state could nullify a federal law if it was harmful to any state

  20. Who was a famous states rights proponent ?

  21. John C. Calhoun

  22. Who argued against Calhoun ?

  23. Daniel Webster

  24. Webster's famous words ?

  25. “Liberty and Union, now and forever one and inseparable”

  26. What 2 key moments before the Civil War shaped the statesrights doctrine ?

  27. 1.Kentucky and Virginia resolves stating that a state could nullify a federal law and secede from the Unionused in response to the Sedition Act under John Adams administration2. argument used again in nullification crisis during Jackson administration when South Carolina threatened secession over tariff

  28. What was Lincoln's view of secession ?

  29. Unconstitutional- secession is rebellion

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