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Political Parties
Washington Administration -
Admas Adminsitration
Federalist -
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Era of Good Feelings
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Missouri Compromise
MO is Slave
ME is free
Above 36-30' in LA Purchase free, below = slave -
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Age of Jackson
Common Man
Spoils System -
Compromise of 1833
reduces the Tariff of 1838 (abominations)
SC accepts and does not follow through w. Nullification -
Compromise of 1850
CA = Free State
No Slave Trade in DC
UT & NM Territories = Popular Sovriegnty
TX $ 10 million Debt repaid
Strict Fugitive Slave Law
Clay, Calhoun, & Webster save Union -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel that fueled abolitionist movement
300,000 copies sold in first year -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
KS Territory divided into KS & NE
slavery decided by popular sovriegnty
Eliminated MO Compromise
Republican Party is formed as a result -
John Brown Pottawatomie Massacre
Killed 5 pro-slave people in KS
erupted into "Bleeding Kansas" -
Dred Scott Decision
Chief Justice Roger Taney (from Calvert County)
Scott not a citizen and can not sue (slaves not citizens)
MO Compromise Unconstitutional -
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
IL Senate Debates
Douglass is corned by Lincoln on Slave Issue
Freeport Doctrine - Douglass take no real stance on slavery
Lincoln loses but becomes popular candidate for President for Republicans -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
Failed attempt to start a slave rebellion in VA
Executed for crime
martyr in North - Villian in South -
Election of 1860
Lincoln wins with no support from slave states
SC will succeed -
Civil War Begins
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Civil War
Conflict bewtween the North and South
