Important Figures
16th President of the United States
First Republican President
Anti-Slavery
'All men are created equal'
Abraham Lincoln
Senator Charles Sumner gets beaten by Senator Preston Brooks with a cane in Congress
Canefight
Problem: MO wanted to become a slave state
Solution: Maine enters as a free state to create balance.
36' 30 Parallel Line which outlaws slavery in Northern territories
Missouri Compromise
We think they are not, and that they are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States
Dred Scott Decision
Who was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina 1861
Radical Abolitionist
Led the raid on Harpers Ferry
Pottawatomie Massacre
Believed in Racial Equality
John Brown
Small uprising in Virginia
55 White men, women, and children were murdered by a small group of slaves.
Nat Turners Rebellion
When the people of a state/territory get to decide what they want. Government based on the consent of the people.
Popular Sovereignty
Repealed the Missouri Compromise line
Organized new territories and left them open to Popular Sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who is on the $5?
Abraham Lincoln
Wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Big believer of popular sovereignty
Little Giant
Stephen Douglas
Started with the Pottawatomie massacre
Consisted of YEARS of violence between pro slavery and anti slavery groups
Bleeding Kansas
God wants us to go West. This idea of American exceptionalism that it is their divinely duty to spread their ways across the continent
Manifest Destiny
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
Abraham Lincoln
House-Divided Speech
Who murdered Alexander Hamilton
Aaron Burr
Author of Uncle Toms Cabin
Son died in 1850 which led her to writing the UTC
Shifted the abolitionist movement from an economic to a moral issue.
Harriet Beecher-Stowe
Supreme Court decision that stated that all people of African Descent were not included and never intended to be included in the word 'citizen' in the Constitution.
Dred Scott v Sanford Decision
Treaty of Hildalgo
Controversial 2 year conflict
Resulted in the US gaining California, New Mexico, and Utah territories
Mexican-American War
One of the bills proposed in the Compromise of 1850
Allows southern slave owners to reclaim their property in the north.
Federal Fugitive Slave Act
Who was the 4th president of the United States
James Madison
Anti-Slavery
Believed in Racial Equality
Radical Abolitionists
Series of debates held in Illinois; a democrat pro popular sovereignty man versus a tall lanky unknown republican
Lincoln Douglas Debates
Book about a free man who was take from Northern New York and was sold into slavery.
12 Years a Slave
United States foreign policy
International Neutrality
Western Hemisphere is off limits
Monroe Doctrine
What is Ms. Maxfields cats' first and middle name.
Rajah Binx