aice us history mind gaps

Wilmot Proviso (1846)

Amendment that sought to prohibit slavery from territories from Mexico.

Whig Party

Party in the 1830s, they stood for protective tariffs, national banking, and federal aid for internal improvements.

Gadsen Purchase

Strip of land in todays AZ and NM, Mexico got $10M in 1853.

Ostend Manifesto (1854)

Secret negotiations to get Cuba as a slave state from Spain.

Lecompton Constitution

Slave constitution from Kansas that president Buchanan supported but HoR didn’t.

Freeport Doctrine (1858)

View that voters in a territory should vote to exclude slavery by refusing to enact laws that gave legal protection to owning slaves.

John o’ Sullivan

Created the idea of Manifest Destiny

Sacking of Lawrence (1856)

Violent attack by pro-slavery forces in the anti-slavery town

Massacre of Pottawompie Creek (1856)

In response to Lawrence, antislavery settlers attack the pro-slavery settlement, resulting in the brutal killing of five men.

Battle of Osawompie

A conflict during the Bleeding Kansas period, where abolitionist forces fought against pro-slavery factions, (pro won).

John Brown

A prominent abolitionist known for his radical opposition to slavery, he led violent actions such as the raid on Harpers Ferry and the Pottawatomie Massacre.

Freeport Doctrine (1858)

Stephen Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas debates, asserting that territories could implicitly exclude slavery by not passing laws to protect it.

7 southern states that succeeded Dec. 1860- Feb. 1861

SC, FL, GA, MI,TX, AL, LA.

Crittenden Comprimise (1860)

A proposal intended to prevent succession, extend the 36 30 line, + protect slavery where it was.

Corwin Amendment

Amendment proposed in 1861, to protect slavery where it already existed.

Catholic Immigration

3+ million immigrants from mainly Ireland + Germany immigrated from 1845-1854.

1852 Election

Pierce (democrat that saw abolition as a threat to the Union),

General Winfeild Scott (Whig)

John Hale (Free Soil)

PIERCE WON + democrats controlled both houses of Congress too.

Election of 1856

Contested between James Buchanan (Democrat), Frémont (Republican), and Fillmore (Know-Nothing), leading to Buchanan's victory.

Election of 1860

J. Bell (Constitutional Union Party),

J. Breckinridge (Southern Democrats),

S. Douglas (Northern Democrats),

A. Lincoln (Republican) + election

Virginia Peace Plan

A proposal by VA to settle disputes between the Northern + Southern states, but similar to the Crittenden Compromise.

Charleston Mercury

The Charleston Mercury was a pro-secession newspaper in South Carolina that played a pivotal role in promoting the secessionist movement leading up to the Civil War.