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- 2. a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
- 6. In American political discourse, states' rights refer to political powers reserved for the U.S. state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution
- 7. was a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 10, 1850 in response to the Compromise of 1850. Supported by Unionists, the document affirmed the acceptance of the Compromise as a final resolution of the sectional slavery issues while declaring that no further assaults on Southern rights by the North would be acceptable.
- 10. Farm-centered
- 11. railroad a series of roads, house, river crossing and people who helped southern slaves.
- 12. A state that allowed slavery
- 14. those states in the United States in which slavery was prohibited before the Civil War
- 15. to add on such as adding a territory to existing towns,
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- 1. An older slaves that plantation owners thoughts was loyal and who supervised other slaves
- 3. restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.
- 4. the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled
- 5. created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and President Franklin Pierce. The initial purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up thousands of new farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad
- 8. soil those states in the United States in which slavery was prohibited before the Civil War
- 9. of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846
- 13. Setting fire