Land Disputes
This discovery sent lots of people heading west
What is Gold?
law passed forcing possible runaway slaves to be returned to the South without a trial or any delays
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Person who beat Charles Sumner on the Senate floor
Newspaper published by Frederick Douglass
What was the North Star?
There were both pro-slavery-ites and abolitionists who fought to claim the territory free/slave during this controversy.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
This land gained in 1848 saw the discovery of gold leading to increased population and a controversial application for statehood.
What is California?
Laws passed exempting northerners from any criminal action for not assisting in the kidnapping of possible runaways.
What are Personal Liberty Laws?
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Expressed by John C. Calhoun, articulated Southern views on slavery/the "Peculiar Institution"
what was the Positive Good argument?
Immediately after this, South Carolina let the way in secession.
What was the Election of 1860?
War that added a great deal of land in the southern part of the United States?
What is the Mexican War?
these two faced off in the 1858 Illinois senate race.
Who are Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas?
Person who raided an arsenal and attempted to arm slaves to encourage a revolt.
Who was John Brown?
This newspaper was published out of Boston and advocated an end of slavery; giving a lot of freedmen and escaped slaves a forum for sharing their stories.
This candidate did not win a single southern state, but won the Presidency.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
When people fled to Kansas to claim it free or slave it was because what approach to state determination.
What is popular sovereignty?
Roger Taney decided that this person was not able to try a case in a federal court and that he was property - no matter where he was.
Who was Dred Scott?
Editor of newspaper called The Liberator, who advocated for immediate and complete equality.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
Although the Missouri Compromise was violated with the Kansas Nebraska Act - this ultimately ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
What was the Dred Scott decision?
Many believed this was provoked by James K. Polk, to gain more land for slavery.
What was the Mexican War?
4 of the 5 component of the Compromise of 1850.
What are (1) California statehood as free state, (2) end of slave trade in D.C., (3) remainder of Mexican cession was divided into two territories of New Mexico and Utah, (4) boundary between Texas and U.S. and (5) Fugitive Slave Act?
This group was so frustrated by the expansion of slavery, that they formed around the idea of halting expansion.
What was the Republican Party?
In order to pass the Compromise of 1850, This man argued not as a northerner, but as an American - stating it was essential to pass the compromise.
Law that was proposed multiple times but never passed the Senate post Mexican War.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
In this one debate, Lincoln was able to corner Douglas into stating that is was possible for popular sovereignty to lead to the banning of slavery, upsetting the South. The statement was known as what.
What was the Freeport Doctrine?