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- slavery in the south
- pick your cotton boy
- yes sir
- i think we've got an agreement
- compromise of 1850
- indeed
- thankfully
- Georgia platform
- finally, our right to keep out slaves will not be touched
- slaves were used to pick cotton in the south
- Dred Scott case
- you have no freedom for you are not human.
- The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
- election of 1860
- Abe Lincolnwins
- The Georgia Platform warned that the state would and should resist any future congressional activity disrupting the interstate slave trade, weakening the fugitive slave laws, or abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia.
- secession
- In Dred Scott v. Sandford (argued 1856 -- decided 1857), the Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. The Court also ruled that Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories.
- all is lost
- Lincoln ran on a political platform opposed to the expansion of slavery in the territories. His election served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the Civil War. ... In 1865, Lincoln was instrumental in the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which made slavery unconstitutional.
- On December 20, 1860, and extended through June 8 of the next year eleven states in the Lower and Upper South severed their ties with the Union. this action caused the Civil War.
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