Events/Ideas
people (mostly Southerners) who believed a state could secede from the Union if it chose to; many were fearful of losing their way of life if Lincoln became president
What is Secessionists?
Patched together
What is Cobbled?
Law proposed which allowed for the people in a territory to decide if they would allow slavery or not (popular sovereignty); unstated, the plan was to allow Kansas to become a slave state and Nebraska#1 to become a free one; led to Bleeding Kansas and a split in the Democratic Party
What is Kansas-Nebraska#1 Act of 1854?
No longer valid
What the is Null?
Abolitionist who fought in Kansas and led the raid on Harpers’ Ferry; after his death, became a martyr to abolitionists
Who was John Brown?
Idea pushed by the Democratic Party to allow the people in a territory to decide if they wanted slavery or not; idea was introduced in the Compromise of 1850; Democrats preferred this because they didn’t have to take a national stand on the issue of slavery
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Argument or strong debate
What is Controversy?
Name given to the period of time when popular sovereignty was to decide Kansas’ slavery question; pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces both moved into Kansas and began fighting each other for dominance in the territory
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Avoid or evade
What is Circumvent?
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin; influential anti-slavery book; banned in the South
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Idea of Western land to be free from slavery; not necessarily an abolitionist stance, just did not want white farmers to compete with slave labor
What is “Free soil” ?
Standard; what a group stands for
What is Banner?
Laws passed as part of the Missouri Compromise; slave catchers were given more rights to capture runaway slaves in the North; accused could not defend themselves; judges were paid more for finding against the accused; Northerners had to assist in the capture or could be fined; Northerners despised this law and worked against it
What is Fugitive Slave Laws?
Disruptive; leading to a split
What is Divisive?
Leader of the Republican Party and winner of 1860 Presidential election; a very good politician; his election will lead the Southern states to secede; he was NOT an abolitionist
Who Was Abraham Lincoln?
Law passed under the Articles of Confederation that did three key things: 1) allowed for territories to enter into Union as equal partners as other states; 2) outlawed slavery in the region; made all original states cede their land claims to the federal government
What is Northwest Ordinance?
Requests or appeals
What is Petitions?
Method many slaves used to escape to freedom; after Fugitive Slave laws were passed; the North was not entirely safe, only Canada; slaves from the Upper South were more successful in escaping than those from the Deep South
What is The Underground Railroad?
Meanings; aims
What is Intentions?
Pennsylvania congressman who wrote a bill that would outlaw slavery in any land acquired from Mexico (Wilmot Proviso); it passed in the House of Representatives (were the North & West dominated) but failed in the US Senate (free and slave states were equal)
Who Was David Wilmot?
A very vocal minority in the North; wanted the immediate emancipation of slaves; not all abolitionists wanted equality of the races though; most northerners were not abolitionists
What is the Abolitionists Movement ?
Developing; changing
What is Evolving?
Largest political party in the United States at this time (pre-Civil War era); it was a national party (meaning it had members from North, South & West); unable to maintain a coalition because the party split over the issue of slavery
What is Democratic Party?
Inciting & baiting
What is Provoking?
Supreme Court decision which further upset Northerners; it ruled that slaves were property and not citizens and furthermore, the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional meaning that Congress could not legislate where slavery could and could not exist
Who was Dred Scott?