HIS 108 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Wilmot Proviso, Missouri Compromise, Involuntary Servitude
27 Apr 2019
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Intensifying emotional and ideological polarization between the two regions over losing their way of life and sacred republican rights at the hands of the other: a preview of civil war occurred in kansas in 1855 and 1856. 12. 1 slavery in the territories: white migration westward was discouraging and downright dangerous. Mexican war: when the war ended, several solutions were presented to deal with slavery in the territories, free-soil: term representing the idea that the western territories should not be open to the expansion of slavery. John c. calhoun said the wilmot proviso was unconstitutional along with the missouri. Compromise and all other federal acts that prevented slaveholders from taking their slave property into the territories. Southerners resented the lax federal enforcement of the fugitive slave act of 1793 slave states. Fugitive slave act: the spoken and written word also fueled emotions over slavery in the aftermath of 1850, frederick douglass, harriet beecher stowe.
