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☆☆☆☆☆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.
Strong leadership in the abolitionist movement.
The Hispanos of New Mexico are people of Spanish or Indo-Hispanic descent. The explorer Don Juan de Oñate from Mexico City to New Mexico with 500 Spanish settlers and soldiers around 1598. By the time of the Civil War in 1861, both the North and South claimed ownership of the area. And like with White treatment of Native Americans, Whites treated the Hispanos unfairly as second-class citizens.
it was rigid and well defined.
The United States qualifies as such.
Britain and Mexico fought with the United States over the Oregon and Texas territories.
it was unjust, oppressive, and cruel
New Mexico is a state and no territory was gained from them.
Mexican foods and celebrations are popular throughout the area
