States Rights
States Rigths is the right of each states to make laws for there own states that can't interfere with the Constitution and Bill of Rightsor any other official United States documents. States that wanted this were southern states.
This caused fighting beetween the north and south because the government and other states didn't agree with the south states on this.
A famous person that was part of this was Abe Lincoln, he was trying to stop this so the south wouldn't get to make their own laws. He was a threat to the south because what he said would affect the country (at the time he was running for president).
The event that he was at was the Missouri Compromise, this is where the states were fighting over Missouri our new state to be either a slave state or a free state. What came out of the compromise was that Northern states get Maine and for the future slavery will be banned to all new states north of the coordinates 36" 30" (southern border of Missouri).
This caused fighting beetween the north and south because the government and other states didn't agree with the south states on this.
A famous person that was part of this was Abe Lincoln, he was trying to stop this so the south wouldn't get to make their own laws. He was a threat to the south because what he said would affect the country (at the time he was running for president).
The event that he was at was the Missouri Compromise, this is where the states were fighting over Missouri our new state to be either a slave state or a free state. What came out of the compromise was that Northern states get Maine and for the future slavery will be banned to all new states north of the coordinates 36" 30" (southern border of Missouri).
Missouri Compromise
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Was passed in 1820 making Missouri a slave state and Maine as a free state. Making all new states above the latitude line 30 36 anti-slave or free states.