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28 Cards in this Set
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Free Soil Party |
Free Soil Free Speech free labor and free man, hated slavery hated slaves |
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popular sovereignty |
Citizens of a territory could vote to become a slave or free state |
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California statehood |
Bnd's when gold discovered in 1848 at Sutter's Mill California, population grew rapidly |
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the Nashville Convention |
Delegates from nine slaveholding states feared California would be free state |
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the Compromise of 1850 |
Henry Clay, attempted to restore Harmony between the regions by offering a series of resolutions for North and South |
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Obstacles |
Zachary Taylor was opposed the bill was an Omnibus Bill |
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Taylor died in Fillmore seceded him, he favorites compromise, and Clay broke up the Omnibus Bill in two separate bills so lawmakers could vote for only bills they supported |
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Final draft of the Compromise of 1850 |
1. California added as a free state 2. Slave trade was outlawed in Washington DC 3. Popular sovereignty was added to New Mexico and Utah territorial bills 4. Stricter Fugitive Slave Law this was the most divisive issue 5. The boundary dispute between New Mexico and Texas was settled, Texas received 10 million |
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Northern states countered with personal Liberty laws which unofficially nullify the Fugitive Slave Law |
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Anthony Burns |
Boston 1854, anti-slavery mom tried to free the Fugitive Slave from the courthouse, one guard was killed, Burns escorted by military to a ship through crowd 20,000 protesters |
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Asia |
In 1853 Pearson Commodore Matthew Perry to force Japan to open trade with the US |
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Cuba |
1854 the US secretly demanded that Spain silky before 120 million, ostend Manifesto, failed |
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 |
Was the most important short-term cause of Civil War, Senator Stephen Douglas proposed bill that organized the Nebraska territory into two new States, Kansas and Nebraska, popular sovereignty over turn the 36-30, led to the creation of new Republican Party |
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The know-nothing party, American party |
anti-immigrant |
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Bleeding Kansas |
Civil War in Kansas over whether the territory should become a slave or free state |
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beecher's Bibles |
Rifles were brought into Kansas to stop it from becoming a slave state |
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John Brown |
John Brown & Sons LED counter attack upon the pro-slavery forces at Pottawatamie |
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Brooks assault of Sumner in 1856 |
Brooks beat Sumner with his Cane on the floor of the Senate because Sumner made a speech condemning Brooks uncle and the Kansas City tuition, Sumner out of senate for 3 years |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Sold more than 300,000 copies in 1852 alone and helps to create the stereotypical image of the southern slave holder, had more social impact than any other novel in US history |
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Scott versus Sanford 1857 |
Dred Scott sued for his freedom, his owner had taken him to free territories, Supreme Court Rodger Taney ruled slaves are not citizens and could not Sue |
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The Lecompton controversy |
A fraudulent pro-slave Constitution was sent to Congress when Kansas applied for Statehood Congress sent it back and a new anti slavery Constitution was written in Kansas became free state |
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Lincoln Douglas debates 1858 |
7 divided State plays for the senate seat from Illinois, Douglas won the seat |
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Douglas is Freeport Doctrine |
State legislator could refuse to pass a Slave Code if they wanted to keep it out Southerners incesed |
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John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859 |
His plan was to use the guns to arm a slave revolt in Virginia, Federal Marines under General Robert E Lee capture brown, brown was later hanged and became a martyr |
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Hilton our helpers book impending crisis of the South |
Call Don lower-class whites to resist plantar dominance in abolish slavery in their own interest, slavery was destroyed the Yeoman farmer, helperism 1857 |
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the election of 1860 |
Abraham Lincoln defeated Douglas VP Breckenridge and Bell |
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Lincoln's victory was the final straw that launched the southern secessionist movement |
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Some fire eaters were pleased that Lincoln won, South Carolina began the planning stages of secession from the Union |
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