a reason to go somewhere
Slaves were blocked from bringing lawsuits in courts because they weren't citizens.
Stephen Douglas supported popular sovereignity, also called squatter sovereignity, which stated that each territory had the right to determine if they would accept slavery or not.
There was a successful revolution in the French colony of Haiti
Gold was discovered there.
it made it easier to travel against the current
A state had the right to choose not to follow a law it thought was unconstitutional.
Bleeding Kansas
The first Spanish-speaking settlers in New Mexico (Apex)
The cotton gin
They believed if they didn't move peacefully, they would be moved by force.
more slaves tried to run away
The price decreased.
banks calling in loans they had made to farmers and businesses
it was unjust, oppressive, and cruel
It was greatly helped when sherman captured atlanta
A machine that removed seeds from cotton (APEX)
isolation - apex