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7 Cards in this Set
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Fugitive Slave Act
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- Required all to help catch slave runaways
- Anyone aiding fugitive could be fined up to $1000 or prisoned - Part of Compromise of 1850 - People in South believed the law would force Northerners to recognize rights of Southerners - Led to mounting anger in North, convincing more people of evils of slavery |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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- Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Packed with dramatic incidents and vivid characters - Showed slavery was a brutal, cruel system - Humanized slaves - Turned Northerners against slavery |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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- STEPHEN DOUGLAS
- For North: Transcontinental Railroad, connect Illinois -> West - KANSAS - About to set up new government - 1500-1600 ballots, border ruffians - Two governments [one antislavery and proslavery] --> civil war in Kansas - Violence in Congress --> Brooks-Sumner Incident |
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Dred Scott Decision
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Dred Scott moved from slave state to free state and back to slave state. Argued to court, and finally case brought to Supreme Court.
- Scott was still a slave. - Slave was property, according to the Constitution, one's property cannot be taken away - Slaves are not citizens - Limits on slavery and popular sovereignty were unconstitutional --> slavery could be anywhere --> Northerners furious |
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Lincoln-Douglas debates
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- Senator debate in Illinois
- Lincoln: decisions and Union cannot last - Douglas: all free or all slave - debate: Lincoln questioned Douglas about popular sovereignty --> Douglas responded with Freeport Doctrine, which lost him votes from South - Helped people clarify postions - Lincoln lost |
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Raid on Harpers Ferry
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- John Brown (lunatic or sent by God or matyr)
- Abolitionists for $ - Plan: arsenal, attack & catch off-guard, weapons & hand out to slaves - Colonel Robert E. Lee captured Brown (U.S. Marines) - Brown execeuted (hanged) - Many Northerners saw Brown as saint/matyr -> more Northerners opposed slavery - Southerners became more convinced that there was a conspiracy |
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Election of 1860 & Secession Crisis
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- 4 candidates: Stephen Douglas (N. Demo.), John Breckinridge (S. Demo.), John Bell (Constutitional Union), Abraham Lincoln (Repub.)
- Democrats split - Final straw for Southerners - Secession (1st- South Carolina) -> 6 states followed - Lincoln (president) -keep slavery out of new territory, make peace - No war unless Sourth makes first shot - Fort Sumter |
