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Slave Law Vs Slavery Book Review

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missouri as a slave or free state would majorly disrupt the balance of the U.S.'s free vs. slave areas (surfacing debate over if slavery should be permitted at all in America).

The compromise prevented any further expansion of pro-slave territories as well as fortified the Fugitive Slave Law. The forced the non-slaveowners tp participate in slavery.

This book brought the mistreatment of slaves (aka Human beings) into light for the North. It essentially angered Southern slave owners and influence the northerners into a different and more terrifying state of mind over slavery.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act invalidated portions of the Missouri Compromise by authorizing the settlers in two territories to determine to allow slavery by popular vote. Pro and Antislavery agitators flocked to Kansas hoping to shift the decision by sheer weight in numbers. The two factions wrangled for five years, causing much bloodshed (claiming over 56 lives). Although both division eventually ratified anti=slavery constitutions, the previous violence shook the nation. …show more content…

His case eventually advanced to the status of Supreme Court worthy, only leading him to an even greater distraction of his rights as a human being with the courts verbalizing that he had none.

Although he wasn't voted for in any southern ballots, he still managed to win office. This meant that an anti-slavery Republican was in office, striking fear into a great majority o Southerners, This fear causes six states to secede from the Union, only breaking apart the nation even further.

The war was the starting point of the Civil war. The battle of Fort Sumter lasted 34 hours, having the garrison in Fort Sumter surrender against Confederate warships. This is what sparked the fire of the Civil

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