Glosnost (sp?)- the opening of the USSR to the rest of the world and western goods/ideas.
At the start of the Civil War there were 23 Union states and 11 Confederate states. The Territories did not belong to either the North or the South, but represented a great deal of land and economic promise.
citizens living within any new territory would decide for themselves on the existence of slavery
The Supreme Court's ruling forced all states, if they employed the death penalty for any crimes, to take measures to ensure that they did not do so in any manner that that showed discrimination or was applied arbitrarily rather than according to consistent practice.
In the short run, it meant a moratorium on capital punishment while states reevaluated their criminal justice practices.
