North vs. South: The Road to the Civil War

The Wilmot Proviso angered this side because it would restrict slavery in the Mexican Cession after the Mexican-American War

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Agreed to the Missouri Compromise because Maine would enter the Union as a free state

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This side opposed the rise of the Republican Party because it viewed this political group as being controlled by abolitionists

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This side had a mixed reaction to Lincoln's "House Divided" speech: some saw it as too radical while most realized that they must now take a stand against slavery

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This side was divided over the rise of abolitionism: while some agreed with the immediate emancipation of the slaves, most believed this view would split the Union

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In the nullification crisis, this side fought for and gained a reduced tariff

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This side was horrified by the Dred Scott decision because the ruling destroyed all legal foundation for the containment of slavery

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This side opposed the personal liberty laws passed by the states of the other section: they saw the laws as assaults on their private property in slaves

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This side viewed the results of the presidential election of 1860 as a fraud and a sham, that they no longer had a home in the Union, and that they should break away

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This side received California as a free state in the Compromise of 1850

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