Immigration and Nativsim
What were the two main group of migrants from Europe and Asia?
Irish and German
What is ”Uncle Tom’s Cabin“ about and who wrote it?
The evils of slavery and how it impacted the families of slaves
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
This law created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and introduced the concept of popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What was the percentage of electoral votes that allowed Lincoln to win and who did the votes come from?
59% and The North
The Southerns saw Lincoln’s victory as a sign of…
The North beginning to dominate the government
What groups of immigrants lost half of their population fleeing the potato famine?
The Irish
As the North began to expand manufacturing, what did the North become more reliant on?
Free labor
The Kansas Nebraska Act repealed this earlier agreement that prohibited slavery in the northern territories
The Missouri Compromise
What were the key objectives that the Republicans wanted?
Exclusion of slavery in western territories, internal improvements, higher tariffs and free homesteads
What were the States that seceded from the Union?
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas, South Carolina and Tennessee
What group of immigrants settled more towards the Old Northwest?
The German
What were the underground railroads?
a network of ”stations” aka safe houses for slaves trying to escape slavery
Violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas resulting from the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
Who formed the fourth political party and what was the party called
Whigs, Know Nothings and Moderate Democrats
Constitutional Union Party
What made the Confederate States of Americas constitution different than the US constitution?
Their constitution limits on the governments power to impose tariffs and restrict slavery
Members of The Supreme Order of the Stars and Strips were OFFICIALLY called…?
the National Union Party
What were the “conductors“ of the underground railroad?
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…
Border ruffians
Why did the North chose Stephen Douglas as their presidential candidate?
Because they wanted slavery to be chosen by popular sovereignty
What was the Crittenden compromise and why was it proposed?
A compromise that, would guarantee the right to hold slaves in all territories south of the old Missouri Compromise line
In an attempt to appease the south one last time
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?
Slavery suppressed the wages due to it not competing on the same level as other jobs
This Democratic senator, a key senator of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, also supported westward expansion for a transcontinental railroad
Stephen Douglas
What was the primary goal of the Free soil Movement?
A movement made to stop the spread of slavery in the territories that were won after the Mexican-American War
What was the reason that Lincoln couldn’t accept the Crittenden compromise?
Lincoln couldn’t accept it due to it violating the republican position against extension of slavery into the territories