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Mex-American war

Polk was a total asshole enabler

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- sent troops between the disputed border territory like a douchebag
- waited for bloodshed to happen, which of course eventually it did
- US declares war on Mex
- half the country is like what the shit!!

Mex-Ameri war first foreign war
which America was unprepared for
as always during the time period

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"We shall win the war but it shall poison us," said Emerson. And indeed it did.

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"Like people, nations must pay for their sins."

- all this new real estate = leads to civil war cuz hey guys what's slave & what's free!
- and all the major players in the Civil War now have their experience

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Wilmot Proviso: no slavery in any territory won from Mex
- passed 2 times in the House, but lost in the Senate due to heavy Southern influence

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Election of 1848

- pop sov democrats vs whigs who were dying out cause their asses were so tired from straddling the fence
- issue about what to do bout mex session important
- free soil partayyy

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Comp of 1850

- cali as free
- no slave trade in DC
- disputed Texas territory = NM
- pop sov for slavery
- stricter Fugitive Slave Law

the south totally boned for that last one

man i am leaving so many things out lmao

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Northern response to the Fugitive Slave Law:

Personal liberty laws

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Fugitive Slaves in Boston:

Fred Wilkins: rescued by freeblacks! Ran off to Canada, then CAME BACK TO FIGHT FOR THE UNION WHAT A BADASS
Thomas Sims: returned to slavery, only the white abolitionists the Vigilance Committee protests
Anthony Burns: returned to slavery, all of Boston protests

Boston is pissed cause of the -