Know-Nothing Party (American Party)
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Wilmot Proviso
Popular Sovereignty
Gold Rush
Compromise of 1850
Free Soil Party
Stephen Douglas
Ostend Manifesto
Fugitive Slave Law
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Nativism
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican Party
John Brown
Bleeding Kansas
Brooks-Sumner Affair
Lecompton Constitution
Dred Scott Case
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Election of 1860
Crittenden Compromise
States’ Rights
Secession
BIG PICTURE
Ability to compromise over slavery ↓
Abolition - Literature, humanitarian reforms, events
South defended slavery - Popular sovereignty + property rights
Violence - Anti-slavery vs. pro-slavery
Divisive events - Elected Abraham Lincoln + secession
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