Immigration and Nativism
What were the 2 main groups of migrants from Europe and Asia?
Irish and German
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin novel about?
The evils of slavery
This law created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and introduced the concept of popular sovereignty.
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Who won the popular vote by 40%?
Abraham Lincoln
The Southerns saw Lincoln's victory as a sign of?
The North would take control of South Carolina making it 11 states
What group of immigrants lost half of their population fleeing the potato famine?
The Irish
As the North began to expand manufacturing the economy became more reliant on?
Free labor
The Kansas Nebraska Act repealed this earlier agreement that prohibited slavery in the northern territories.
The Missouri Compromise
The Southern represented by John Breckinridge advocated for?
Slavery in new territories protected by federal slavery code.
The Confederacy was led by?
Jefferson Davis
What group of immigrants settled more towards the Old Northwest?
The Germans
What were the underground railroads?
A network of "stations" for slaves who wanted to escape slavery.
Violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas resulting from the Kansas- Nebraska Act.
"Bleeding Kansas"
What was 2 things the republicans advocated for?
exclusion of slavery in the western territories, internal improvements, higher tariffs or free homesteads.
The states that seceded called themselves?
The Confederate States of America
Members of The Supreme Order of the Stars and Stripes were OFFICIALLY called?
The National Union Party
What were "conductors"?
Mostly free African Americans who would aid the enslaved people back from the South and up to the North.
Pro-slavery forces from Missouri who crossed into Kansas to influence its legislature were called this.
Border ruffians
The North represented by Stephen Douglas advocated for?
Slavery to be chosen by popular sovereignty.
True or False? The Confederacy developed their own constitution?
True
What is nativism?
Strong anti-Catholic nativist movement that was aimed at limiting new immigrants political power and cultural influence.
What caused the North to take an economic stance against slavery?
Its suppressed wages due to it not competing on the same level as other jobs.
This Democratic senator, a key advocate of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, also supported westward expansion for a transcontinental railroad.
Stephen Douglas
True of False? The free soil platform wanted to abolish slavery?
False
What year was Lincolns inauguration?
1861