The Dred Scott decision<span> served as an eye-opener to Northerners who ... to regulate</span>slavery<span> in </span>new territories<span>, these once-skeptics reasoned, ... to the reality instead, that the </span>Supreme Court has made<span> Illinois a </span>slave<span> State. ... </span>did<span> not stop </span>slavery<span> now, they might never again </span>have<span> the chance. </span>
A system in which countries kept their sole right to trade with their colonies
