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..banned slavery in all the new territories acquired from Mexico.
In 1854, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed a bill to organize the Territory of Nebraska, a vast area of land that would become Kansas, Nebraska, Montana and the Dakotas. Known as the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the controversial bill raised the possibility that slavery could be extended into territories where it had once been banned.
Slavery became the major dividing issue between Northern and Southern states in the U.S. The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820, involving the regulation of slavery in the Western territories. This started people taking sides over whether slavery should be abolished altogether, or remain an essential right of the people.
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. Some mistake Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation for the official abolishment of slavery, however, that only abolished slavery in the Confederate States of America (CSA). See the related links section below.
In 1930, for example, the U.S. Congress passed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act.
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1835 law passed by Southern congress which made it illegal to talk of abolition or anti-slavery arguments in Congress
The Kansas-Nebraska of 1854 allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebrask to vote on whether to allow slavery, which is what "popular sovereignty" or "squatter sovereignty" meant.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a law passed by Congress in 1854, which divided the states of Missouri and Iowa, and the territory of Minnesota into two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska. It resulted to violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a law passed by Congress in 1854, which divided the states of Missouri and Iowa, and the territory of Minnesota into two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska. It resulted to violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers.
..banned slavery in all the new territories acquired from Mexico.
I am not sure which rule you are asking about, since there were many rules and laws that southern congressmen passed over the years. Perhaps you are referring to the "Gag Rules" which were passed during the 1830s; they were passed by pro-slavery members of congress, who wanted to prevent anti-slavery proponents from discussing any petitions, or proposing any legislation, that demanded an end to slavery.
The amendment that Congress passed in 1865 was the Thirteenth amendment and it banned slavery in the United States.
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws passed by the U.S. Congress to address the issue of slavery in newly acquired territories from the Mexican-American War. The compromise included California being admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act to return escaped slaves to their owners, and popular sovereignty to determine slave or free status in other territories.
David Wilmot submitted an amendment to a bill in the House of Representatives in 1846. The Wilmot Proviso would have outlawed slavery only in the territories gained in the war with Mexico. It passed, but the Senate adjourned without voting on it. He tried again in 1847 and again it passed, but the Senate then passed their own version of the bill without the amendment. It never became law.
A law passed through Congress muting all anti-slavery petitions in the 1800s
David Wilmot, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso in 1846, which aimed to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico during the Mexican-American War. The proviso was ultimately not passed by Congress, but it sparked intense debates over the expansion of slavery in the United States.