Congressmen and senators started to fear their political opponents tremendously; tension was slowly building up (3,92). The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state but also passed a law making it painless for slave-owners to recover their escaped slaves from free states (3,92). Congress then passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act which allowed inhabitants to decide whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state (3,92)...
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Congress then passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act which allowed inhabitants to decide whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state (3,92). In hopes of victory, the opposing sides invaded the territory which was after nick-named "Bleeding Kansas" by the easterners (3,92). This unsettled region would be the perfect setting to launch a crusade against slavery (3, 92)...
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Define Jamestown as the first colony in 1607, Captain John Smith and the House of Burgesses, John Rolfe, Brown Gold (tobacco), and the Headright System. The colony became self-supporting when it started producing tobacco, which was not only liked but was also recommended by doctors to cure any disease. In 1612, John Rolfe began to grow a certain type of tobacco in Jamestown that the English were especially fond of...	1 / 128
Economic and Political development Soon these mild tobaccos became a profitable source of income in England, and became the cash-crop of the colonial period which valued beyond what the colonists had imagined...	3 / 773
John Smith Biography Due To bad government and near chaos, Smith was eventually elected president of the local council in September of 1608. He started a policy of firm discipline, strengthened defenses and encouraged farming with the warning, “He who does not work, will not eat...	2 / 451
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