David Hume thought ……

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was heavily influential to northerners because it

A junior representative introduced this monumental amendment to an appropriations bill that stipulated that Congress had absolute authority to regulate slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico.

Southerners had no reason to feel that they were losing their political power because the Dred Scott decision forbade Congress from touching the issue of slavery.

Compromise became possible in 1850 because Zachary Taylor

As a product of the Enlightenment, American religion began to change to incorporate reason and a more humanist outlook into the doctrines. One religion that emerged because of this was

Robert E. Lee understood that in order to swing the war in favor of the Confederacy and attain international recognition for the new republic, he must invade the North and win a crushing victory. He failed and was “defeated” at

The Compromise of 1850 did impose a more severe Fugitive Slave law that angered many northerners because

Which of these was NOT a result of the Compromise of 1850?

One other recommendation for settling the argument over the Mexican territory included