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Date Posted: 16:00:29 11/07/02 Thu
Author: mallory
Subject: Ch. 13-Rising Sectional Tensions

Rising Sectional Tensions
A. Slavery
1. Zachary Taylor said that states should be able to make their own decision about slavery
2. California adopted an antislavery constitution at Taylor's urging and then asked Congress for statehood.
3. Taylor also lobbied for the same thing for New Mexico
4. Congress didn't like the idea
a. Antislavery forces lobbied for abolition of slavery in DC
i. Caused problems with southerners
b. Northern states made it so courts and police officers couldn't help return runaway slaves to south
c. Southern white states were upset that four new free states would be made
i. this would outnumber the slave states
B. Sectional Conflict over Slavery in the Territories
1. Even moderate southern leaders were talking about leaving the Union
2. In North, every state but one had prohibited slavery

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