history test

chapter 10

wilmot proviso

no slavery in territory acquired from mexico

compromise of 1850

henry clay offered this to settle disputes over slavery

stephen douglas

reintroduced resolutions individually

fugative slave act

part of compromise of 1850, had very harsh terms

What were the harsh terms?

alleged fugitives denied jury trial, right to testify on own behalf and federal commissioners paid more for returning than freeing accused people convicted of helping a fugitive

personal liberty laws

forbid prison for fugitives, grant jury trial

underground railroad

secret network of people who help slaves escape

Harriett Tubman

escaped from slavery, conductor on 19 trips

uncle tom’s cabin

shows cruelty of slavery as moral problem not political

popular sovereignty

people vote on the issue of slavery

the Kansas Nebraska act

allowed popular sovereignty on slavery

the sack of Lawrence

pro slavery grand jury branded people of anti-slavery Lawrence traitors and 800 people looted the town

john brown

believed God wanted him to fight slavery, wanted to start slave uprising, went to harpers ferry to get weapons

Northern southern whigs split

over slavery in 1852 election

franklin pierce (dem)

elected president in 1852

nativism

belief in favoring native-born Americans over immigrants

nativist

created the know-nothing party

free soil party

opposed extension of slavery into territories

horace greeley

helped form the republican party

john Fremont

Republicans selected, led troops in CA

James Buchanan

elected secession averted

American party (know nothings)

ex president millard fillmore

dred scott

slave who had lived in free areas and sued for freedom

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney handed down decision

\-slaves don’t have rights of citizens

\-no claim to freedom

\-congress cannot forbid slavery

\-declared Missouri compromise

\-unconstitutional

Proslavery Kansas government

wrote constitution, sought statehood

President Buchanan endorsed it

he endorsed the Referendum voted down constitution

Stephen Douglas

supported constitution

freeport doctrine

any territory could exclude slavery by not passing laws supporting it

republican convention (chicago)

overflowing crowds, Lincoln gave house divided speech

house divided speech

a house divided among themselves cannot stand

south Carolina

along w/ 6 states secede

Confederate States of America

formed in Montgomery Alabama

Jefferson Davis

unanimously elected president

Buchanan called secession illegal

but also said illegal to stop it

Montgomery Alabama

Jefferson Davis as their President and Alexander Stephens as their VP

Abolition movement

wanted to end slavery

Lincoln-Douglas debates

was the issue of slavery in the territories

result of John Brown’s attack on Harper’s Ferry

was stricter Runaway Slaves Laws in the South.

One result of Buchanan’s election in 1856

south remained in the union