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Unit 1 Set 3 Civil War and Reconstruction 1.7 - 1.9

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The belief that slavery must be kept out of the Western territories, for the sake of preserving Northern free labor.

The belief that a slave-holding oligarchy existed to maintain slavery in the South and to spread it throughout the United States, including into the free states; this belief held that a southern cabal championed a closed, aristocratic way of life that attacked northern capitalism and liberty.

California Gold Rush

Mass migration to California following the discovery of gold in 1848

Compromise of 1850

(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries & federal assumption of Texas debt, (4) slave trade abolished in DC, and (5) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Gave federal government authority in cases involving runaway slaves; aroused considerable opposition in the North.