Round 14: Tossup 15

Description acceptable. Local resistance to Anderson Jennings’s attempt to do this action at Oberlin College is chronicled in Daniel J. Sharfstein’s The Invisible Line. While ostensibly an attack on the Lipan Band, doing this action was likely the real goal of the Callahan Expedition. Edward Gorsuch was killed while trying to do this (10[1])action (10[1]-5[1])during the Christiana Riot. (10[1])The early Texas Rangers frequently (10[1])crossed the Mexican border (10[2])to murder (-5[1])or illegally perform this action. The Supreme Court voided a Pennsylvania state (10[1])law that prohibited (10[1])this action (10[1])in a case (10[1])involving Edward Prigg. (10[3])This action (-5[1])was required by a constitutional clause (-5[1])submitted by Charles Pinckney and a 1793 Act, (-5[1])offering a legal pretense used to kidnap people (10[2])like Solomon Northrup. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, the Compromise of 1850 led to the passage of a law authorizing (10[2])what action (10[1])even in free states? ■END■ (10[4])

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