An intellectual movement of the renaissance based on the study of humanities
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They argued that annexing Texas would intensify sectional conflict and rupture the Union.
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The Act was one of the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a "slave power conspiracy." It required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate.
They wanted to prevent imperialism so the first goal was to establish a new balance of power in Europe.