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The Kansas-Nebraska act violated the compromise by allowing two states (Maine and Missouri) to use popular sovereignty.
The Dred Scott Decision said that Blacks could not be citizens according to the compromise.
Stephen Douglas debated Lincoln over slavery which is known as the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
The Missouri Compromise states that Missouri is a free state and that everything below it is a slave state.
The fugitive slave law required all slaves to be returned.
Slavery
The Know Nothing Party was a Nativism party to which immigration was a threat.
The Mexican-American War was due to U.S. soldiers invading Mexico after Texas' Independence.
Stephen Austin help establish Texas as a state.
Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth C. Stanton, and Harriet Beecher Stowe were all abolitionist against slavery.
Louisa May Alcott worked for the underground railroad.
Romanticism was a movement focused on emotions rather than science and reason.
Beliefs
Mormon religion was established by Joesph Smith.
The John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was lead by John Brown to stop slavery.
Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe were poets with romanticism writings.
The Manifest Destiny was the belief that the United States should be coast to coast.
Compromise of 1850 stated that Utah and Mexico were slave states but California would be a free state.
Other poets were Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Fennimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville.