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Passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, it set high penalties for anyone who aided escaped slaves and compelled all law enforcement officers to participate in retrieving runaways.

Site where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865

… and his Southern allies have deliberately adopted the monstrous  creed that any man who dares to utter sentiments which they deem wrong or unjust shall be brutally assailed,” stated a prominent state journal in response to what event? 

This served as a justification for mid-nineteenth-century expansionism in the United States, it will also arguably become the forefather of American Imperialism.

This battle gave the Union army control of the Mississippi River and split the South in two parts. 

Overall abolitionists in the Northern States were largely unpopular and thought to be radicals in spite of the ‘peculiar institution’ known as slavery. 

Introduced by Stephen Douglas in an effort to bring Nebraska into the Union and pave the way for a northern transcontinental railroad

First transplanted to America from England by Mother Ann Lee, they emphasized simple, communal living and were all expected to practice celibacy. The strived to develop a utopian society in America. 

Northern Democrats who obstructed the war effort by attacking Abraham Lincoln, the draft, and, after 1863, emancipation.

In this speech Lincoln framed the war as a means to uphold the values of liberty and end slavery. This served as the moral clause that the North rallied behind during the war.