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division of Louisiana Purchase
divided it into either free or slave regions -
The Wilmot Proviso
was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War -
Free Soil Party
was formed on a platform favoring the Wilmot Proviso and free land for settlers. They were a group of moderate abolitionists. They did not oppose slavery in the South, but opposed the expansion of slavery into the new territories. -
Compromise of 1850
California in as Free State; rest of Mexican cession no restrictions on slavery, new fugitive slave act, Slave trade outlawed in DC but not slavery. -
henery clay
helped the missouri crisis of 1819-20 and helped with the one in 1850 -
The Fugitive Slave Act
United States Congress
What: Part of the Compromise of 1850--a law that was enforced to have runaway slaves return
When: September 18, 1850
Where: United States
Result: helped fund the runaway railroad -
uncle tom's cabin
written by harriet beecher stowe -
election of 1852
democratic national convenion turned to fraklin pierce -
Kansas Nebraska Act - Bleeding Kansas
fight over slave or free - killed people
voided Missouri Compromise
John Brown - abolitionist came to Kansas, killed many slave-holders -
Republican Party
organized in 1854 by antislavery Whigs, Democrats, and Free Soldiers in response to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act; nominated John C. Frémont for president in 1856 and Abraham Lincoln in 1860 -
Freeport Doctrine
put the slavery question in the hands of american citizens -
Preston Brooks
Butler's nephew; congressman who beat summer with a cane until he was dead in the senate chamber -
Pottawatomie Massacre
Abolitionist, John Brown, with his sons and a few followers, pulled five of their pro-slavery neighbors out of their beds and hacked them to death with broadswords in Pottawatomie Creek,
Kansas. -
John Brown Raid
All of his men were killed or captured during the raid and he was put to a death sentence -
confederate states of america
the 11 Southern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee,Louisiana, and Mississippi) that seceded from the Union in 1861,precipitating a civil war with the North. The Confederacy was defeated in 1865 and the South reincorporated into the US -
congress
they didnt approve the construction of a certain railroad until 1862