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    This document discusses several key events in American history related to the tension between federal and states' rights, particularly around the issues of slavery and secession. It outlines the Sedition Acts that extended federal power, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions that opposed these acts, the Nullification Crisis, the Missouri Compromise that drew a line between slave and free states, the Fugitive Slave Law that allowed bounty hunters to capture escaped slaves, and the Compromise of 1850 that admitted California as a free state.

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    This document discusses several key events in American history related to the tension between federal and states' rights, particularly around the issues of slavery and secession. It outlines the Sedition Acts that extended federal power, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions that opposed these acts, the Nullification Crisis, the Missouri Compromise that drew a line between slave and free states, the Fugitive Slave Law that allowed bounty hunters to capture escaped slaves, and the Compromise of 1850 that admitted California as a free state.

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    This document discusses several key events in American history related to the tension between federal and states' rights, particularly around the issues of slavery and secession. It outlines the Sedition Acts that extended federal power, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions that opposed these acts, the Nullification Crisis, the Missouri Compromise that drew a line between slave and free states, the Fugitive Slave Law that allowed bounty hunters to capture escaped slaves, and the Compromise of 1850 that admitted California as a free state.

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    “It’s a Long Story.

    ”
    States’ Rights
    ► Federalism
    -A system of government in
    which power is divided between
    a central authority and
    constituent political units.
    ► 10th Amendment
    -Restates the Constitution's
    principle of federalism by
    providing that powers not
    granted to the national
    government nor prohibited to
    the states by the constitution of
    the United States are reserved
    to the states or the people.
    States vs. Federal
    ► Sedition Acts
    -Extended the powers of the
    federal government

    ► Virginia and Kentucky


    Resolutions
    -Voided Sedition Acts
    -submitted to the other states
    for approval with no success

    ► Nullification Crisis
    Strained Tensions; Strained
    Solutions
    ► Slavery rears its ugly
    head
    -South
    -Agriculture

    ► Compromise of 1820
    -MissouriCompromise
    -Drew a “line” to determine
    slave and free areas.

    ► Solution for 30 Years.


    Underground Railroad
    ► Network of locations
    from South to North
    aiding in escaping
    slaves

    ► Drinking Gourd

    ► Harriet Tubman
    Fugitive Slave Law
    ► Bounty Hunters can
    go into “free” areas
    and capture runaway
    slaves.

    ► Assistingrunaway
    slaves is a crime

    ► Angered Abolitionists
    Compromise of 1850

    ► Wilmot Proviso
    -Attempt to block slavery in
    previous Mexican areas
    -Defeated in Congress

    ► Statehood for California


    -California Free
    -Stronger Fugitive Laws in
    South
    -Future situations decided
    by Popular Sovereignty

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