History of the United States I / Unit 14 USH1 1976 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Southern Resentment
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The idea
Southerners resented the Missouri Compromise line of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes and demanded that popular sovereignty apply to all territories instead.
In practice
The argument that property rights let an owner take enslaved people anywhere.
Where people slip
Unit 11 covers the line itself. Note that the demand is framed as a property right, which is the frame Taney would later adopt.
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