HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: The Ragtime Dance, Livestock Branding, Free Silver
8 Oct 2016
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Uncle tom"s cabin is banned in texas and the south. Because they did not practice crop rotation they wanted to move to fertile land. Kansas and nebraska organized as territories with popular sovereignty. Created because balance of free and slave states are shattered because. Missouri applies for statehood as a slave state. Utah and new mexico territories are subject to popular sovereignty. Appointment of federal marshalls, who will return runaway slaves to their owners. Texas gives up western land claims for million. Half of it used to issue tax cuts. Texans are not happy with houston because they feel he is not thinking of texas"s best interests. Houston resigns as senator and runs for governor. Himself and 4 sons head towards pottawatomie creek. Drag 5 pro-slaves and kill them in front of families. Important because it convinced texans to secede from the union. 1 fire destroyed the downtown of the small town of dallas.
