Tallmadge's gradual emancipation proviso received almost unanimous opposition from Southern Congressmen. ... Some Northerners feared that the annexation of Texas was part of a Southern conspiracy to extend American territory south into Mexico and South America, thereby creating unlimited new slave states. ... Lasting about 1 ½ years, it was fought throughout Texas, New Mexico, California and into the Mexican interior. ... In the end the U.S. won and acquired Texas, New Mexico and California. ... The Compromise was designed to relieve growing tension by allowing for admission of Californi...

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They believed that all southern slaves should be emancipated. ... After the Missouri Compromise, hostility between the northern and southern states grew stronger. ... In 1850 Southern democrats supported the compromised of 1850. ... Southern extremists opposed any limit on the extension of slavery, but settled for now. ... This compromise allowed abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia and admission of California as a free state. ...

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Many Southern preachers proclaimed that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible. ... Southern extremists opposed any limit on the extension of slavery, but settled for now. ... This compromise allowed abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia and admission of California as a free state. ... Because slavery was such an important part of Southern society, the South felt that they could not survive without it. ... Southerners hoped the threat of succession would force acceptance of Southern demands, but it did not. ...

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Finally, California would be admitted as a free state. There was some fear that, in the event of strong antislavery legislation, the Southern states might withdraw from the Union altogether. ... Through a Southern rigging of the ballot, a state constitution passed permitting slavery, despite free-soilers outnumbering proslavery citizens by three to one. ...

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Many Southern preachers proclaimed that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible. ... Southern extremists opposed any limit on the extension of slavery, but settled for now. ... This compromise allowed abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia and admission of California as a free state. ... He hoped to simplify construction of a transcontinental railroad through these states rather than through the southern part of the country. ... Because slavery was such a important part of Southern society, the South felt that they could not survive without it. ...

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Slavery was the main issue that divided the Northern and Southern states; but another, more complicated issue was at hand. ... Furthermore, the latitude line of 36-30 (the southern border of Missouri) was set, and it was declared that any new territory north of this boundary would be non-slavery land. ... Slavery was not only an institution in the Southern states, but it was part of a lifestyle that had been going on since the founding of the United States of America. ... In fact, some northerners believed the exact opposite of what their southern counterparts thought. ... The compromise a...

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Finally, California would be admitted as a free state. ... In his last presidential run in 1844, he came very close to winning, but because of his reluctance to back the annexation of Texas cost him to lose support in the southern states. ...

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The northern factories were ready to accept as much raw cotton as the southern growers could ship them. ... In 1790 there were about 657,000 slaves in the Southern states. ... Thanks in large part to the cotton gin, cotton growing became very profitable, and cotton quickly became the most important crop across much of the southern United States. ... By 1800 or so, however, African American slavery was once again a thriving institution, especially in the Southern United States. ... This machine allowed Southern planters to grow a variety of cotton short staple cotton--that was especially well ...

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"Representatives of the northern states claimed that if the southern slaves were mere property, then they should not be counted towards voting representation in Congress (Harrison 1)". ... The northern delegates were afraid that any attempt they made to abolish slavery would have caused the five southern states to refuse to ratify the constitution (Welch 33). ... Most slavery had declined by the late seventeen hundreds, but in the new constitution it was still legal because all of the Northern and Southern delegates had signed the new constitution. ... The invention of the cotton gin made ...

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Due to northern focus on industry and southern focus on agriculture, sectionalism developed among the states. ... The Compromise of 1850 was created to appease both regions; it stated that California was to enter the Union as a free state but that Utah and New Mexico would decide upon the issue based on the concept of popular sovereignty (Document C). ...

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After slave labor became driving force of the Southern economy, the North grew against slavery and the South obviously grew for it. ... They now controlled the majority in the House and were pushing for majority in the Senate with California up for statehood. ...

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