The Compromise of 1850 made California a Free State and New Mexico and Utah became territories with popular sovereignty. ... Muscogee, Georgia, Herald, quoted in the New York Tribune states, "All northern, and especially the New England, states are devoid of society fitted for well-bred southern gentlemen.... There was a Southern need for expansion of slavery into the territories or an addition of slave states. It also means that Northerners were "hardly fit" for association with their southern compatriots. ... The Crittenden Compromise basically, accepted the boundary between...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The practical maintenance of slavery was requiring an expansion of federal power and Southern "slave states", while advocating states rights, demanded federal intervention in support of slavery. ... Therefore his election victory created a crisis, as many southern Democrats feared that it would be only a matter of time before Lincoln would move to kill slavery in the South. ... This meant that Lincoln, even before being sworn in as president, was faced with the rebellion of 7 southern states who left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, and later four more who joined as host...

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Jim Crow laws enforced segregation throughout the southern states of the United States. ... Mexico relinquished California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming to the United States after being defeated in the Mexican-American War. ... In 1968, Mexican American students in Los Angeles, California staged a walkout. ...

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Southern states, including the 11 states that formed the Confederacy, depended on slavery to support their economy. ... The main debate between the North and the South on the eve of the war was whether slavery should be permitted in the Western territories recently acquired during the Mexican War (1846-1848), including New Mexico, part of California, and Utah. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate