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Road to Civil War
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Missouri Compromise
MO Compromise SummaryJefferson's Quote The Missouri Compromise (created by Henry Clay) allowed for the entry of Missouri as a slave state, and Maine as a free state. It also banned slavery from Louisiana north of the 36 30 line (except Missouri) -
Nullification Crisis
Summary #2SummaryNullification Crisis Quote John C. Calhoun started the belief, in South Carolina, that if the states did not like a federal law that was going to be passed then, they could simply nullify it. -
Compromise Tariff of 1833
Compromise Tariff of 1833Proposed by Clay and Calhoun as a resolution to the Nullification Crisis. Gradually reduced the rates that the South didn't like in the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 down to 20%. lasted only two months into its final stage before the Black Tariff was implemented. -
Ostend Manifesto
The explanation of the Ostend Manifesto[The Ostend Manifesto](http:// http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/434254/Ostend-Manifesto)The Ostend Manifesto was a document written in 1854. It stated that America would go to war with Spain if they did not sell the territory of Cuba to America for the price of $120 million dollars. America justified itself by claiming Cuba in the National interest; however, the document was leaked to the public far too quickly and it was put down. -
The Dred Scott Case
More info on Dred Scott CaseAbraham Lincoln Quote Dred Scott was a slave who was moved from slave territory, with his owner, to Fort Snelling in present-day Minnesota in the 1830’s. Scott sued for him and his family’s freedom since they had been taken out of slave territory. Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that Scott and his family were not citizens and couldn’t sue in a court of law. -
Election of 1860
More informationLincoln Quotes Quadrennial presidential election between Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas.
