Chapt. 15

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Lincoln-Douglas debates

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Debates in the Illinois senatorial campaign during which Douglas and Lincoln argued over slavery

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Frederick Douglas

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Influencial writer. escaped from slavery in maryland. published his own antislavery newspaper called the north star and wrote an autobiography.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. The book persuaded more people, particularly Northerners, to become anti-slavery.

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Compromise of 1850

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Should new states be slave or free? Compromise: California is free. Inhabitants of former Mexico states vote on it.

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Roles in Compromise of 1850

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Clay introduced the Omnibus bill. Calhoun opposed it and Webster supported it. They compromised.

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Slave power

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The belief that pro-slavery southerners and James Polk were united in an attempt to spread slavery throughout the United States. Most Northerners were suspicious of the influence of southern slaveholders in Congress, especially because of the Fugitive Slave Act and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

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Stephen Douglas

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developed popular sovereignty as a way to settle slave state or free state. He helped pass the compromise of 1850 by unbundling it.

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Fugitive slave act

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forced slaves who escaped from their owners to be returned to them; Compromise of 1850 made it more strict and forced the North to enforce it

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Election of 1852

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Franklin Pierce won

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Ostend Manifesto

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Pierce tried to buy Cuba from Spain and was rejected. Stated that if we couldn't buy Cuba we would take it. This angered the North because of possible expansion of slavery.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Created the Kansas and Nebraska territories but gave them popular sovereignty. This repealed the Missouri Compromise. It also caused more conflict, aka bleeding kansas.

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Nativism

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The belief that native-born Americans are superior to foreigners. Nativists=know-nothings

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Republican party

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Party that emerged in the 1850s in the aftermath of the bitter controversy over the Kansas-Nebraska Act, consisting of former Whigs, some northern Democrats, and many Know-Nothings.

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James Buchanan

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Democrat who won the election of 1856. His failure as president helped to lead to the civil war. He was accused of manipulating the dredd Scott decision.

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John C Frémont

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Republican candidate in 1856. He lost.

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Dred Scott v Sandford

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Supreme Court ruling by Roger Taney, in a lawsuit brought by Dred Scott, a slave demanding his freedom based on his residence in a free state, that slaves could not be U.S. citizens and that Congress had no jurisdiction over slavery in the territories

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Lecompton constitution

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Pro-slavery governments made their own constitution

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Panic of 1857

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Short but sharp economic depression. Britain temporarily turns down agricultural exports

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Harper's Ferry Raid

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Abolitionist John Brown's failed attempt to free Virginia's slaves with a raid on the federal arsenal at harpers ferry, Virginia

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Election of 1860

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Stephen Douglas ran and lost. Abraham Lincoln won.

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Secession

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Pro slavery states leaving

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Confederacy

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South Carolina, Texas, Mississippi, Florida, Alabam, Georgia, Louisiana

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Jefferson Davis

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first President of the Confederacy. Was a reluctant secessionist. Remained in US senate for two weeks after own state Mississippi had seceded. Rather be war leader than government.