The Northern Abolitionist
A piece of legislation proposed by David Wilmot (D-FS-R PA) at the close of the Mexican-American War.
The Wilmot Proviso
The democratic party split, Lincoln was elected president in this election
Election of 1860
1854 - anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats, Free Soilers and reformers from the Northwest met and formed this party in order to keep slavery out of the territories
Republican Party
Led a raid on Harper's Ferry to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
John Brown
The first state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
In August of 1831, a slave named _________ incited an uprising that spread through several plantations in southern Virginia. Turner and approximately seventy cohorts killed around sixty white people. The deployment of militia infantry and artillery suppressed the rebellion after two days of terror.
Nat Turner
In the growth years following this purchase, Congress was compelled
The Louisiana Purchase
Political party of the 1850s that was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant
Know-nothing party
Reeling from the KS-NE Act, a new political party was founded in 1854 – the ____________ Party. They were a mixture of former Whigs, Free-Soilers, and anti-slavery Democrats.
Republican Party
___________________ was elected by a considerable margin in 1860 despite not being included on many Southern ballots. As a Republican, his party’s anti-slavery outlook struck fear into many Southerners.
Abraham Lincoln
In the growth years following this Purchase, Congress was compelled to establish a policy to guide the expansion of slavery into the new western territory.
Louisiana Purchase
The 15th President of the United States (1857-1861). He tried to maintain a balance between proslavery and antislavery factions, but his moderate views angered radicals in both North and South, and he was unable to forestall the secession of South Carolina on December 20, 1860.
james buchanan
A moderate, who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 and popularized the idea of popular sovereignty.
Stephen A. Douglas
1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
Kansas Nebraska Act
A law which compelled Northerners to seize and return escaped slaves to the South.
Fugitive Slave Act
Founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and other abolitionists. Garrison burned the Constitution as a proslavery document. Argued for "no Union with slaveholders" until they repented for their sins by freeing their slaves.
American Antislavery Society
1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico
Wilmot Proviso
A political movement that opposed the expansion of slavery. In 1848 the free-soilers organized the Free-Soil Party, which depicted slavery as a threat to republicanism and to the Jeffersonian ideal of a freeholder society, arguments that won broad support among aspiring white farmers.
free-soil movement
Looking to open up land for a __________________ that would pass through Chicago, Douglas proposed that the Kansas and Nebraska Territories allow settlers to decide whether or not to allow slavery through popular sovereignty.
Transcontinental railroad
In 1858, Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas faced a challenge for his seat from a relatively unknown one term former congressman and “prairie lawyer”____________.
Abraham Lincoln.
1805-1879. Prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
William Lloyd Garrison
(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
Compromise of 1850
Formed in 1847 - 1848, dedicated to opposing slavery in newly acquired territories such as Oregon and ceded Mexican territory.
- stop expansion of slavery
Free Soil Party
This Act of 1854 established Kansas and Nebraska as territories and set the stage for “Bleeding Kansas'' by its adoption of popular sovereignty.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
This chief justice proclaimed blacks "so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."
Chief Justice Roger Taney