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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
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