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Anti-Slavery Actions
- Underground Railroad
- Slave Resistance:
- Escape
- Poision
- Slow Work
- Break Tools
- Learning
- Not Understanding
- Faking Illness
- Stealing
- Traditions
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Industrial Revolution
- South didn't like it, slaves became less valuable as machines could start doing work.
- Creation of processes that would speed up production of products
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Sectionalism
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Missouri Compromise
- Made Missouri a slave state
- Made Maine a free state
- Prohibited slavery in Louisiana Territory north of the 36' 30' latitude line
- Angers southerns because they were not allowed to expand/move north if they wanted to bring slaves.
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Tariff Act of 1828
- Andrew Jackson enforced tariffs across the entire country.
- Colhoun resigned, returned to senate
- North liked the tariffs, made people buy more goods from them
- South disliked, made them buy from north, and made slavery more expensive
- Sectionalism: Split the country in half on who favored the tariff, Jackson refused to remove it.
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The Nullification Act
- Allowed states to decide if they were to follow certain laws
- South liked
- North disliked
- Rebellious torawds government law ** See force bill event **
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Force Bill
- Allowed president power to enforce federal law with military
- South Carolina accepted the tariffs
- Forced to do it
- South hated it
- North liked it
- Showed presidencial favoritism torawds north
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Fugative Slave Act
- California became a free state
- Prohibited slave-trade in the District of Columbia
- Let slave-owners recapture any slaves if they had escaped into free territories
- Hated by abolisionists
- Put fear in slaves
- Continued the Underground Railroad
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Served to repeal Missouri Compromise
- Made new states decide by themselves if they were to be a free state.
- Southerners liked it
- Northeners thought it was unfair
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Election of 1860
- Canadites: Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas
- Winner: Abraham Lincoln
- South disliked new president:
- Didn't support slavery
- Supported Taruffs
- Slaves could escape easier with railroad
- Slaves could buy own property with homesteads
- President of 1860 favored the north
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South Carolina secedes from Union
