Free-Soil Party- A minor but influential political party in the pre-Civil War period of American history that opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories.
Fugitive- is someone that has escaped from captivity or is in hiding, an ‘escapee’.
Wilmot Proviso- The Wilmot Proviso was a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War. In 1846, David Wilmot a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso.
The answers are 1. A
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5.C
According to Oyez, "The Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a right to assistance of counsel applies to criminal defendants in state court by way of the Fourteenth Amendment."
So, this is a major victory as it protects criminal defendants in a whole new court of law.
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northern Italy in 208 B.C., Roman forces defeated an army of reinforcements led by Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal, who had crossed the Alps in an attempt to come to Hannibal's aid. ... He then invaded North Africa, forcing Hannibal to withdraw his troops from southern Italy in 203 B.C. in order to defend his home state.
