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* Compromise of 1850 | * Compromise of 1850 | ||
* Jefferson Davis | * Jefferson Davis | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Dred Scott decision|1857 written by Chief Justice Roger Taney of Maryland, the decision held that Scott, a slave who sued for freedom when his owner took him from the slave state Missouri to Illinois; Taney ruled that blacks are not citizens and thereby have no constitutional protections; the decision also invalidated the Missouri Compromise, stating that it violated slave owners' property rights; the Taney Court thought the ruling would settle the problem of slavery, but it instead inflamed it}}</ul></li> | |||
* Gadsden Purchase | * Gadsden Purchase | ||
* Gold Rush of 1849 | * Gold Rush of 1849 | ||