feb 14, 1861 - John J. Crittenden's Plan
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Crittenden- senator from kentucky2 parts:
1. approved by congress, a constitutional amendment to protect slavery from federal interference in states that already had it.
2. congressional republicans were ordered to turn this part down in fear of imperialism/filibustering, westward expansion of the Missouri Compromise lin (3630 n latitude line) to the Clai border (slavery in south, banned in north) which raised the prospect of expansion into Cuba or Central America
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Date:
feb 14, 1861
Now
~ 164 years ago