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Nick Keeling ∙
popular sovereignty
Henry Clay
sectionalism
(an abolitionist)
New Mexico Territory
The document that said slavery was not permitted in any area won from Mexico was known as the Wilmot Proviso.
intermountain region
missionaries
John Slidell
fugitive slave laws
The United States was the second largest producer in oil. At the end of 2013, it became the largest oil producer overtaking Saudi Arabia.
it is cotton kingdom (a+answer)
The land that was given to the United States was known as the Indian Territory.
Daniel Webster thought that saving the Union was more important than ending slavery. Webster was a senator from Massachusetts.
The US wanted to extend the Missouri compromise line all the way to the Pacific.