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He was the great compromiser, made many of the compromises in the US during that time.
He was a senator of Illinois.
Allows california to come in as a free state, Texas loses boundary dispute with New Mexico, No slavery restrictions in Utah and New mexico, Texas gets $10 million, and the Fugitive Slave Law was created.
A political party in the 1800’s, had only four presidents in office with this party
Acts that stated any escaped slave must be captured and returned back to their slave owners, or the territory they were from.
An amendment to a bill that was created during the Mexican-American war, allowing $2 million to negotiate with Mexico
Allowed any territories that wanted to join the US choose what they wanted to be, free or slave
Bleeding Kansas happened after this act occurred, it is when all the southerners and northerners rushed to Kansas to try and decide what is should be. This broke out into war and many many people died. It was one of the bloodiest days in American History.
A compromise that drew a line saying that any state below it was slave and any state above is was a non slave state.
A political party during this time, 15 presidents have been affiliated with this party
A slave during the 1800s, he filed a case against his slave owner and the result was that he was property, not a human. This case created much uprising of the northerners and help light the fire that caused the civil war
He was the man who ruled in the Dred Scott case
The action of withdrawing formally from a federation; leaving the United States; breaking up with the US
A political party during this time, still is one, has had 18 members affiliated with this party
Includes the President and the heads of the 15 departments
A legal document passed by the legislature
This is a draft of a proposed law presented to parliament for discussion
The national legislative body of a country
A constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law making body
A section of land, not yet having the full rights of a state, in the process of becoming one

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