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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. 

The creation of the  Republic of Somalia in 1822 was to provide a destination for members of the American Colonialization Society when they migrated back to Africa. 

Often credited with  delivering the first blows of the Civil War, this newsman created a militant abolitionist  newspaper grown out of his own life experiences of hardship during the Great Awakening.

One of the first religious communites to speak anti-slavery sentiment in America were the Quakers.

The British had a  strong claim on the Oregon  territory based on prior discovery, exploration, treaty rights and actual occupation of said territory. 

Created to resolve the boundaries between Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Virginia in the 1760s, it came to symbolize the North-South divide over slavery.

Founded in Boston in 1826 as part of a growing effort of nineteenth-century reformers to limit alcohol consumption, and targeted at Irish immigrants that often spent all of their money on drink and not in support of their families.