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Many people were concerned if the new territory would be free or not. Either way, it would increase the sectional crisis because Southerners would be mad if it was free and Northerners would be mad if it was not.
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These laws prohibited African Americans from voting as well as rejected them from public schools. Also, they were not allowed to serve on juries and militias. This is important because it showed how slavery impacted those who were enslaved as well as those who weren't but still African-American.
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Was one of the main starters of the sectional crisis. This was a big part of slave history. There were thousands of slaves freed by the Military.
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Pronounced the start of the sectional crisis because the compromise allowed Missouri to be a slave state. This act lead to the American Civil War between the North and South.
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He was the representative of Kentucky for the Senate as well as the house, the laws of the Missouri Compromise was mostly his work, he played a big role in writing these laws. Part of the Republican party.
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This rebellion was important because it sparked a flame of sectionalism. Demark Vesey's rebellion only made more and more people start rebellions. For this reason, Denmark Vesey's was called The Great Awakening. His rebellion caused sectionalism between political parties, religious corporations, and new reform movements.
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People in the North who were nice to Southerners were considered this because they were thought as better serving to the South than the North. This was another cause of the ongoing sectionalism.
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They criticized democrats for making excuses for slavery. Even though they put down democrats for being alright with slavery they were not an extreme antislavery group.
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This case made it so the federal government's Fugitive Slave Act overpowered Pensilvanias personal liberty law.
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This party revolved around antislavery, they fought for the banning of slavery during the 1844 election but the Whigs and democrats both voted pro-slavery southerners.
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Many arguments were made about if the new states would be made a free or slave state. The South portrayed slavery as a good thing, while the banning of slavery in the new Mexico territory's was being questioned and thought about by congress.
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This part was formed by the Free Soil Leaders, soon after the Conscience Whigs formed a lot of former democrats joined. This new group did not gain much in the election, they got very few votes. Even though their votes only added up to 10% of the popular vote they still managed to win more than 12 House seats, and also one Senate seat.
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After the Mexican war, this treaty was formed. Mexico either had to sell America the territories of California and New Mexico for $15 million or continue fighting. Not surprisingly they signed. Many of antislavery leaders and abolitionists were angered because it was obvious that these territories would just mean more enslaved people.
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Was made to please both the North and South but actually just increased the sectional crisis. To please southerners the compromise had a firm new fugitive slave law that enforced law officials to put citizens also in charge of catching runaways no matter how they felt about it. This was for all states and not just the Southern states so not even in the North were escaped enslaved people safe anymore. But the North did get a ban on Slave Trade in Washington D.C.
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The Federal Slave act was known as the worst outcome of The Compromise of 1850. This act forced all states to catch and turn in runaway escaped enslaved people. The fate of the runaways did not depend on a trial by jury but of particular federal commissioners. This act also forced regular citizens to have to take part in the catching of runaways. The Federal Slave Act was the reason for an overload of federal power.
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In this election, the Whigs only won 42 of the 254 electoral votes. Because of this, they became unknown as a political party.
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This book was important because it gave many antislavery leaders new ideas as well as brought the topic of antislavery into many conversations.
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This territory was the very last undecided part of the Louisiana purchase. This territory went from Texas to the Canadian border. Senator Stephen A. Douglass drafted a bill in 1853 and presented it in 1854, this bill was to help sort out the Nebraska territory. The bill caused a lot of conflict and arguments between the North and South.
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Douglass was a democrat, he was not antislavery. He also ran against Abraham Lincon and won in the 1854 election. Douglass repealed the act for antislavery in the Missouri Compromise.
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Burns was an escaped enslaved person who went to the North for freedom, because of the Fugitive Slave Law Northern slave catchers found Burns beat him then took time to jail. After he was sent to jail tons of people came and protested for Burns to be set free. They killed a Deputy which caused Boston to go under lockdown with armed forces lining the streets. Anthony Burns was then sent back to slavery. This event was important because it showed how the Fugitive Slave Law affected the North.
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During the election, Kansas was being called out for voter fraud. This is because people from Missurou came over and messed with the votes. After all, votes were counted in Kansas it showed that the State would become free however because of the voter fraud their votes were left unseen. This event made the sectional crisis into a national one.
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This decision made it so African-Americans couldn't be considered residents of the U.S. This was to stop the sectional crisis because it just ensured that there would always be slavery everywhere, but in reality, things just worsened.
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Was a Republican, also was antislavery. He ran against Steaphan A. Douglass in the 1854 election but lost. Even after the election, many were left wondering that if he were to run in the 1858 election he would win and they would have the very first antislavery president.
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Everyone was so nationally divided based on their opinions that arguments lead to death at times. Congressmen fought to the point where death was a possibility, and the war was already happening between Kansas and Missouri. This was a big contribution to the section crisis because fighting just led to more fighting.
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John Brown led the attack at Harpers Ferry, he was an abolitionist that used violence to stop slavery. He wanted to attack at Harpers Ferry because that's where the Federal Weapons Arsonal was he would then later use those weapons to start a slave revolt. John Brown gathered many people, including Harriet Tubman's Husband, who fought for Harriet's freedom.