Sentence examples for free territory from inspiring English sources
Defended by barricades, the Maidan turned into a free territory inside Kiev.
It was a noted station on the Underground Railroad by which slaves escaped into free territory.
The Free Territory status was unworkable, however, and deadlock immediately followed the ratification of the treaty.
The Act also made Canada a free territory for enslaved American blacks.
This agreement was particularly evident in regard to the draft statute o the Free Territory of Trieste.
After Emerson died, Scott sued, arguing that Emerson had effectively emancipated him when he took him into free territory.
Northwest Illinois farmers' mantra became "free territories, free homesteads, and protection to free labor".
His pledge found a field of action after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, promoted by Southern legislators, that gave settlers the right to decide whether slavery would be allowed in the heretofore free territories.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Recognizing that the North and West had outstripped their section in population and hence in the House of Representatives, Southerners clung desperately to an equality of votes in the Senate and were not disposed to welcome any new free territories, which would inevitably become additional free states (as California had done through the Compromise of 1850).
In 1856, the Republican Party advocated free speech, free press, free territories, free men, and Fremont.
The amendments would have restored the Missouri Compromise line and extended it to California as a line of demarcation between slave and free territories.
