HIST 2055 Chapter : 6 Westward Expansion 1
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Compromise: northerners hated it, and passed personal liberty laws, which said that you could not be forced to join the us marshal to help capture slaves, anthony burns, a runaway slave, boards a ship to. Anthony burns back to his master: little lady who started the war, harriet beecher stowe published uncle tom"s cabin, about a runaway slave woman, which becomes a huge bestseller in the north, but is burned in the south. It was fictional, but horrified the northerners who now saw. Southern slaveholders as villains: contributes to the start of civil war due to increased tensions between north and south, crime against kansas , immediately following the anthony burns case, congress votes on the kansas. Mexican cession territory, which had popular sovereignty: part of the railroad compromise abolished the missouri. Compromise line, giving those states popular sovereignty and creating kansas and nebraska: this makes northern whigs and democrats mad, so they create the new republican party purely a.
