1. The Road To Secession
... were renewed as northerners and southerners debated over issues concerning the acquisition of territories and the expansion of slavery into such territories. Southern fears mounted at the prospect of a free Mexican Cession territory. Facing a crisis, the federal government vainly attempted to achieve a balance between the regions. The Compromise of 1850 infuriated the South, as it greatly tipped the scales in favor ... against proslaveryites as a reaction to the burning of the free-soil town of Lawrence. This massacre incited brutal retaliation from proslavery forces, sweeping Kansas wi...
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