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Election Of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln told he people his goal when war was over was to have lasting peace among them. Also created the Revenue Act. -
Stephen A. Douglas
He continued from where Henry Clay ended with the Compromise. He later became Lincoln's opponent in both senatorial and presidential elections. -
Free Soil Party
Political rivalry in New York. It was to oppose the extension of slavery in the U.S. Both the Barnburners and Hunkers strongle opposed slavery. -
Wilmot Proviso
A amendment for military appropiation bills.It stated that California, Utah and New Mexico would be closed to slavery. -
Underground Railroad
She was a runaway slave from Maryland. Known as the 'Moses of her people." She led runaway slaves through a secret network of safe houses leading towards the North where they would be free. -
Compromise of 1850
Helped settle the disagreements between free and slave states.Henry Clay made this compromise wih the help of Daniel Webster. -
Popular Sovereignty
Residents of a territory were for or again slavery. This provision appealed to New Mexico and Utah, it also appealed to Southerns. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Fugitives were not entitled to a trial by jury. The act ensured that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Published by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It showed that slavery wasn't just a political contest, but a great moal struggle. -
Presidency of Franklin Pierce
Pierce was a democrate who served in the Mexican American War. Pierce and William R. King won the electoral college vote. They also defeated the Whig Party. -
Bleeding Kansas
There were tragic events that helped inspire the thought of civil war, also massacres, political uprisings, murders, and shadow governments also came up. This happend because people fought over whether a new territory would be a free or slave state. Kansas finally was part of the union as a free state. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
This repealed the Missouri Comptomise and introduced the idea of popular sovereignty- New terrtories could decide whether slavery would be allowed in their state. -
Republican Party
Was created by Jackson, Michigan. It opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act and didnt want slavery. But it also embraced many different opions. -
Know-Nothing Party
Supported longer naturalization period for immigrants. Also captured the goverorship of Massachusetts. Members of the Whig also joined this group. -
Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner accused two Democratic senators as the culprits of the crime, against Kansas. Stephan Douglas and Andrew Bulter, Charles had insulted them.Rrepresentive Preston Brooks was Butler's kingsman and had avenged Butler by punishing Sumners with a cane to beat a unruly dog with. -
John Brown
A militant American abolionist. His raid at Harper's Ferry made a change to antislavery. -
Presidency Of James Buchanan
Buchanan was against slavery but wanted to make it fare for the people who wanted slavery. He cmae up with the idea of new territory's deciding to be free or slave states. -
Freeport Doctrine
The freeport doctrine was created by Douglas. The Doctrine stated that slavery could be legally barred from territoies if police regulations were necessary. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown and his supporters captured citizens and seized the federal army on Harpers Ferry route,to help the slaves -
Presidency of Jefferson Davis
Elected President of Confederate States of America. He ran unopposed. He served as the temporary president for almost a year before becoming the offical president. -
Formation of the Confederate States of America
Southern States that seceded the Union. When war beging at Fort Sumter they were joined by four states of the upper south.
