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Missouri Compromise
Definition-The Missouri Compromise was an effort by congress to defuse sectional and political rivalries.
Analysis- Two bills were joined as one in the Senate, with the clause forbidding slavery in Missouri replaced by a measure prohibiting slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30−N lat. The Missouri Compromise was not effected until 1854.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
Definition- Rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of helplessness deaths caused by any slave uprising in the American South.
Analysis- October marks the anniversary both of his birth and of his arrest as the leader of one of the United States' most famous slave rebellions.
Termonology- Southampton Insurrection -
Wilmot Proviso
Definition- Pennsylvania Democratic congressman David Wilmot, was an amendment to democratic president James K. Polk bill for the funding of newely received territories.
Analysis- Democrats had divided over slavery and epansion during the 1844 election.
Termonology- David Wilmot proposal divided both parties along sectional lines. -
Compromise of 1850
Definition- A set of laws, passed between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it.
Analysis- In the eight resolutions that he presented to the Senate, Henry Clay stresses the need for unity and good feeling between the North and South.
Terminology- Free State- Any of the states in the union where slavery was ilegal.
Fugitive Slave- Provided southerner slaveholders wit legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed with the compromise of 1850. The Fugitive Slave Act was it provided legal weapons for the southern slaveholders to capture slaves who escaped to the free states.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 essentially grew out of existing state and federal laws regarding the capture of escaped slaves.
Terms- Compromise of 1850 and slavery -
Kansas nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty.
After months of debate, the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed on May 30th 1854.
terms- proposed by stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincolns opponent.
Salmon P. Chase- An American Politician
charles summer- American Politician -
Dred-Scott Case
~ The Dred-Scott Case is a controversial ruling made by the Supreme Court in 1857, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. Dred Scott had lived with his slave owner, Dr. John Emerson, in states and territories where slavery was illegal according to state laws.
~ Dred Scott was a enslaved African american
~ surpreme court- the highest judicial court in a country or state.
~ Judicial court- interprets and applies the law in the name of the state.
~Diversity- a range of different things. -
John brown's Raid on harper's Ferry
~ John Brown a staunch abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry. Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal. Brown had hopes that the local slave population would join the raid.
~ Slave revolt- A slave revolt is technically slaves having an open rebellion.
~ Harriet tubman- an African-American abolitionist -
Lincoln's Election
Lincoln's elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. In the election of 1860 Lincoln faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell.
~ John C. Breckinridege- was a lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He represented the Commonwealth in both houses of Congress and in 1857, became the 14th and youngest-ever -
Battle of Fort Sumter
the Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. Fort Sumter is most famous for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War. Two of the leaders were Robert Anderson, and P.G.T. Beauregard.
~ Secession- the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.
~ Star Of The West- an American civilian steamship.
