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The 1877 Commitment promoted political action that was not concerned with the slave situation, but with party disputes between Democrats and Republicans. The action of withdrawing federal troops from the south was not intended to provide a relief of tension in the relationship between slaves and their self-proclaimed owners, but rather aimed at securing the political hegemony of the Republicans, leaving the slaves at bay.
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Pro slavery advocates believed slave owners had a right to transport slaves into the territories; antislavery advocates argued that this gave slave holding settlers an unfair advantage over non-slave holding settlers.
Pro slavery advocates argued that the slave status of Kansas should be determined by popular vote; antislavery advocates argued that Kansas should be free because of its location north of the 36° 30' parallel.
Pro slavery advocates contended that free African Americans in Kansas should not be permitted rights under the state constitution; antislavery advocates argued that the federal constitution took precedence over Kansas’s state constitution.
Pro slavery advocates held that slavery in the state was legal, as established in the Missouri Compromise of 1820; antislavery advocates argued that this legislation was invalidated by the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Dred Scott case.
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This was known as the Freedom summer
It was an initiative to get as many African-Americans to vote as possible in the elections in Mississippi. The initiative was organized because they had historically been segregated and were not allowed to vote through various means even when they did have constitutional rights to do so, ever since the civil war.
