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Popular Sovereignty And The Compromise Of The Free Soil Party
|What were the advantages and |Popular sovereignty meant that the sovereign people of a territory should determine the statues of |
|disadvantages of popular |slavery. It was popular with politicians because it was a comfortable compromise between the |
|sovereignty? |abolitionists and the slaver-holders. |
|Why was the Free-Soil party |The Free Soil Party emerged. It was formed by antislavery men of the North, who didn't trust Cass or |
|formed? Was it important? |Taylor. |
|Explain. | …show more content…
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|South in 1850? |President Zachary Taylor seemed bent on vetoing any compromise between the North and South that went |
| |through Congress. |
|What factors led to the |In 1850, President Taylor died suddenly and Vice President Millard Fillmore took the presidency. |
|acceptance of the Compromise of |President Fillmore signed a series of compromises. |
|1850? | |
|Explain the quote, "No single |Within the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted as a free state and the territories of New |
|irritant of the 1850's was more |Mexico and Utah were open to slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. Thus, the Senate was |
|consistently galling to both |unbalanced in favor of the North.
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