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Stephen A. Douglas
Senator Stephan A. Douglas political skill engineered the passage of the compromise of 1850 when all of the efforts of senatorial warriors, such as clay, had failed. Douglas later became the well known opponent of Abraham Lincoln. -
Wilmot Proviso
An amendment to an 1846 military appropriations bill, proposing that none of the territory acquried in the war with mexico would be open to slavery. The amendment passed in the House and failed in the Senate. -
Popular Sovereignty
The principle that the residents of a territory should have control over their own affairs, particuarly the power to decide whether to admit slavery. -
Free Soil Party
Minor but influential political party in the pre-civil war period of american history that oppised the extention of slavery into the western territores. -
Compromise of 1850
It was a package of 5 bills. A series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states. Defused a 4 year confrontation between slave staes and free states. -
Fugitive Slave Act
A law enacted as part of the compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage. Established comminsioners to issue warrants for slaves who had run away and reached free states. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin/Harriet Beecher Stowe
A best selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852 that portrayed slavery as a great moral evil. It helped lay the ground work for the civil war. Allowed the public to read the true issie of slavery. -
Presidency of Franklin Pierce
14th president of the United States and is the only president from New Hampshire, Franklin was a democrat. He served in the United States house of representatives and the senate. -
Republican Party
The Repulican party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the united states, Charles Sumner was the avowed Adolisinist and leader of the Republican party. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A law enacted in 1854 that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
A name applied to the kansas territory in the years before the civil war,when the territory was a battleground between proslavery and antislavery forces. -
Know-Nothing Party
Was a political movement by the nativist American political faction of the 1850s. An outgrowth of the strong anti-immigrant and especially anti-Roman Catholic sentiment that started to manifest itself during 1840s. -
Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner
Preston Brooks was a representative of South Carolina-Charles Sumner was a senator in massachusetts, was an allowed abolitionist and leader of the Republican party. -
Presidency of James Buchanan
James Buchanan was a Democrat from Pennsalvannia, the only president who remained a life long banchelor and the last president born in the 18th centry. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri from 1833-1843, he resided in Illinois(a free state) and in an dred of the Louisiana territory, where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 -
Freeport Doctrine
Was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas at the second of the united states supreme court in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford which stated slavery could not legally be excluded from united states terriroies. -
Raid of Harpers Ferry
John Brown is plan seemed fairly straight- forward, he and his men would establish a base in the blue ridge mountains from which they could assist runawway slaves and launeh attack on slave holders. -
John Brown
A unsuccessful business man, Brown tried a verioty of ventures from framing to land speculation, but he failed every time, Brown spent his last 12 years devoted to fighting for abolition. -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham was a Republican, his home state was Illinois, electoral votes:180 against John C. Breckinridge, hes a southern Democratic, home state was Kentucky, electoral votes:72. Abraham won the election of 1860. -
Underground Railroad/Harriet Tubman
A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to canada or to safe areas in the free states.
