One political cartoon related to this bill depicts a man being pushed into the mouth of a giant, and a group called the "F Street Mess" was influential in revising it. Immediately after its reintroduction, Joshua Giddings referred to it as a "gross violation of a sacred pledge" in his "Appeal of the Independent Democrats". Also denounced in the Peoria Speech, this bill's u
One political cartoon related to this bill depicts a man being pushed into the mouth of a giant, and a group called the "F Street Mess" was influential in revising it. Immediately after its reintroduction, Joshua Giddings referred to it as a "gross violation of a sacred pledge" in his "Appeal of the Independent Democrats". Also denounced in the Peoria Speech, this bill's underpinnings were central to its formulator's "Freeport Doctrine". The passage of this act lead to the actions of the Border Ruffians and a localized "Bleeding" conflict in one state. FTP, name this 1854 act formulated by Stephen Douglass that upheld popular sovereignty and repealed the Missouri Compromise, named for two Midwestern states.
One political cartoon related to this bill depicts a man being pushed into the mouth of a giant, and a group called the "F Street Mess" was influential in revising it.
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