States' Right, Nullification, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, the GA Platform, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act

     States' rights was the idea that the states could have more power. It would also limit the federal powers. This was one difference between the North and South at the start of the civil war. South wanted states' rights because they wanted slavery. It was their main source of income. The North kind of ignored their wishes and made a law to abolish slavery. The South wasn't very accepting, so therefore they nullified this law. Nullification is ignoring the entire law because they believe it is unconstitutional. The Missouri Compromise tried to ease some of the tension between the two opposing sides. It stated that every state over the latitude 35'30' was anti-slavery and every state south of that in the pro-slavery.  The Compromise of 1850 was when California wanted to come into the Union. The compromise included Texas coming into the US and the government paying all of their debt, Texas would also divide, the buying and selling of slaves was not tolerated in D.C, California came to the Union, and the Fugitive Slave Act was created. The Georgia Platform was the meeting in which Georgia decided to secede.  The Kansas-Nebraska Act totally repelled the Missouri Compromise. It let slavery into the North and was a huge cause of the civil war.