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    leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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  • Pennsylvania, and New Jersey passed resolutions that disapproved the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, but did not transmit formal responses to Kentucky and Virginia...
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  • Principles of '98 (category Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions)
    never became law. The term derives from the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions written in 1798 by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively. They led...
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  • reference text until the late 20th century, and his Resolutions, detailing the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which he saw as "the most important statement...
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    items are made and administered. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions United Nations General Assembly resolutions United Nations...
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    leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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    constitutional. In response, ten states passed their own resolutions disapproving the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. Six of these states took the position that...
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    leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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    murder. On a 1798 trip back to Virginia, an intermediary gave him Jefferson's Kentucky Resolutions, which denounced the Alien and Sedition Acts. At Jefferson's...
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  • leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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  • Pennsylvania, and New Jersey passed resolutions that disapproved the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, but did not transmit formal responses to Kentucky and Virginia...
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    federal law, first introduced by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in their Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. After the final vote on the Tariff of 1828,...
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  • leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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    Lincoln–Douglas debates (category Presidents of the United States and slavery)
    leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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    states formally responded to Virginia and Kentucky by rejecting the Resolutions and three other states passed resolutions expressing disapproval, with...
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    Northwest Ordinance (category United States federal territory and statehood legislation)
    leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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    Battle of Fort Sumter (category Battles and conflicts without fatalities)
    leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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    Compromise of 1850 (category United States federal territory and statehood legislation)
    leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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  • passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which provide a classic...
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  • Compact theory (category Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions)
    overstepped its authority, and advocated nullification of the laws by the states. The first resolution of the Kentucky Resolutions began by stating: Resolved...
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    Kansas–Nebraska Act (category United States federal territory and statehood legislation)
    leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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    leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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    Bleeding Kansas (category Riots and civil disorder in Kansas)
    leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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    Wilmot Proviso (category United States federal territory and statehood legislation)
    leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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    In December 1837, the Congress passed the Patton Resolutions, introduced by John M. Patton of Virginia. In December 1838, the Congress passed the Atherton...
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    leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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  • counties in Virginia had passed resolutions similar to the Fincastle Resolutions in 1774, such as the Fairfax Resolves. Still, the Fincastle Resolutions were...
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  • leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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    Missouri Compromise (category United States federal territory and statehood legislation)
    leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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    leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance (1787) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99) End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise...
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