the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
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"popular sovereignty" which really just allowed settlers of the territory to decide whether slavery would be banned within their new state's border. Causing many people to rebel including the KKK.<span />
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To pro-slavery factions, liberty and republicanism were to a limited extent, that is to say, they only applied to white people, not to black people or to enslaved people. Pro-slavery factions thought that it was their right and freedom to enslave other people to work for them.
To abolitionists, liberty and republicanism were universal and applied for everyone. This meant that slavery was not to be permitted, because it went against the very liberty of a whole group of people.
After 900 American ships were seized by Napoleon's Continental System (1806) and the British Orders in Council (1807), the U.S. released the Embargo Act of 1807, which prohibited American ships from sailing to any foreign ports and closed American ports to British ships. Some Americans were unhappy with the halting of overseas export/import, contributing to a meeting in 1814.
The Embargo Act was replaced by the Non-Intercourse Act of 1809, which lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports. This was then replaced in 1810 by Macon's Bill Number 2. This lifted all embargoes but offered that if either France or Great Britain were to cease their interference with American shipping, the United States would reinstate an embargo on the other nation. Napoleon, seeing an opportunity to make trouble for Great Britain, promised to leave American ships alone, and the United States reinstated the embargo with Great Britain and moved closer to declaring war.
When the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848, the US contained fifteen free and fifteen slave states. Controversy surrounded all of the proposed solutions to the problem of slavery in the territories. Additionally, northerners railed against the legality of slavery in the District of Columbia, and southerners, in turn, complained of northern failure to comply with the Fugitive Slave Law. All of these issues had to be resolved if new states were to enter the Union.
