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23 Cards in this Set
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Popular sovereignty |
the idea that political power belongs to the people |
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Wilmot Proviso |
a document stating that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory |
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Sectionalism and why it grew |
favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country - because politicians did not take a clear position on slavery but supported their own parties |
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Compromise of 1850 and its results |
A compromise was enacted to settle disputes between free and slave states. California was able to enter the Union as a free state and the rest of the Mexican Cesion was divided into 2 territories Utah and New Mexico |
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Fugitive Slavery Act |
made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act |
a plan that would divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into 2 territories Kan and Neb and allow the people in each territory to decide on the question of slavery |
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Pottawatomie Massacre |
On May 24 1856 Abolitionist John Brown and his men killed 5 pro-slavery men in Kansas and he declared his actions had been ordered by God in response to the attack in Lawrence |
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Sack of Lawrence |
Proslavery jury charged anti-slavery leaders with treason and 800 men rode in to arrest them but they fled and the posse set fires, looted buildings and destroyed presses used to print anti-slavery newspapers |
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Republican Party Objective |
a political party united against the spread of slavery in the West |
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Supreme Court rulings in Dred Scott v. Sanford (list 3) |
1 African-Americans whether free or slaves were not us citizens 2 congress couldn't outlaw slavery in the territories 3 struck down the Missouri compromise which made slavery illegal north of the 36,30 dividing line |
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates (purpose) |
Lincoln challenged Douglas in what became the historic debates where he said African Americans are entitled to natural rights in Declaration of Independence - life, liberty and pursuit of happiness |
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Freeport Doctrine |
the notation that the police would enforce the voters decision if it contradicted the Supreme Courts decision in the Dred scott case became known as |
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Raid on Harper's Ferry (objective and Lincoln's opinion) |
began when he and his men took over the arsenal in Harpers Ferry ,Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion. |
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Election of 1860 - consequences and reactions |
Presidential Election involving new political Constitutional Union Party who chose John Bell of Tennessee who ran against Lincoln who was against slavery. Lincoln won 180 of 183 electoral votes in free states and it angered southerners as he did not campaign in their region and did not carry any southern states and signaled the south was losing its national political power |
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Confederate States of America |
Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas formed also known as the Confederacy which constitution guaranteed citizens the right to own slaves
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Stephen Douglas |
supported the idea of building a railroad to the pacific ocean starting in Chicago |
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Winfield Scott |
a Mexican war hero chosen by the whigs to run for president |
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Henry Clay |
Senator from Kentucky who helped settle Missouri Crisis of 1819-1820 and created Compromise of 1850 to the Senate
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (and her influence) |
she wrote anti-slaveryv novel Uncle toms cabin
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Frederick Douglass |
American abolitionist and writer who escaped slavery and became spokesperson and founded abolitionist newspaper The North Star |
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Dred Scott |
a slave of Dr John Emerson an army surgeon who lived in St Louis Missouri who became the slave of his widow when he died and he sued Missouri state courts for his freedom and the Missouri Supreme Court overruled a lower court who favored him. |
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Charles Sumner |
Senator of Massachusetts who criticized pro slavery people in Kansas and insulted a pro-slavery Senator from South Carolina, Andrew Pickens Butler |
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Preston Brooks |
a relative of a pro-slavery Senator who used a walking cane to beat Sumner unconscious in Senate chambers and was called "Bully Brooks" and had to pay a $300 fine to the federal court |
