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Bookmark or Share- Why did the southern states secede from the U.S.?In 1828 Congress passed tariffs that benefited trade in the northern states. These tariffs ended up being detrimental to the Southern states that relied heavily on the ability to export their agricultural goods. In 1832, the state of South Carolina passed a state law that declared these tariffs to be invalid within the state of South Carolina.
- united states - Why did the north and south struggle to control the ...Kansas was going to end up a free state regardless. This political disaster elevated Free Soilers (and others) into a new major party, the Republicans, dedicated to locking slavery out of any new territory. The strength of this party in the North and the fact that many Northern Democratic voters weren't interested in new slave states either ...
- slavery - Why was California admitted as one big state rather than ...In this answer, Mark points out that when California was admitted to the Union as a free state, that changed the balance between free and slave states, leading to the Compromise of 1850. Why indeed, then, didn't they just split it into two or three states, and declare the southern part slave and the northern part free?
- Free states and slave states - how did that work?Vermont was the eighth free state, and Kentucky and Tennessee the seventh and eighth slave state. As long as the "U.S." was just east of the Mississippi River, one could expect that Ohio, Indiana and Illinois would be free, while the future Missisippi, Alabama, and Florida would be slave. The Louisiana Purchase changed all that.
- world war two - What exactly was East Prussia between 1933 and 1945 ...No. 'East Prussia' was a province of the 'Free State of Prussia' and the 'Free State of Prussia' was a Federated State within the German Reich. Q Beginning in 1933, they were provinces in the German Reich. Not exactly. 'Beginning' in 1918/1920 Prussia was a Federated State within Germany and 'East Prussia' one of the provinces of 'Prussia'.
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