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California and territories of Utah and New Mexico would be closed to slavery forever. This caused the South to think the North was tipping the scales in Congress.
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Opposed the extension of slavery into the territories.
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Harriet Tubman was a conductor in this system of escape routes. She helped slaves escape from their masters and get to freedom.
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Created a series of resolutions in hopes to settle controversy between free and slave states.
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Under the law, alleged fugitives were not entitled to a trial by jury. For a slave to return, the slaveowner was required to describe the escapee.
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Gave the residents of a territory the right to vote for or against slavery. This provision appealed to both the North and the South.
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Picked up the pro-compromise reigns after Clay resigned. Decided to reintroduce the provisions of the Compromise one at a time to make them more likely to pass.
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The novel was popular among the North and the South. It told of how slavery was not just a politial battle, but how it was a great struggle.
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He won because Winfield Scott didn't show full support of the Compromise of 1850. This destroyed the Whig Party completely and caused the North and the South to look for different parties to join.
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Repealed the Missouri Compromise and used popular sovereignty in it's place.
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A group of nativists who were afraid of Papal Power. Believed that Catholics would overthrow the government.
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Wanted to keep slavery out of the territories and also opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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Abolitionist who believed God told him to fight against slavery. He was part of the reason for the beginning of "Bleeding Kansas."
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Kansas became known by this when massacres happened throughout the state between proslavery and antislavery voters.
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Southern congressman Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane because Sumner's speech offended Brooks, South Carolina, and his uncle. This divided the North and South even more.
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Nominated Democrat. He was neutral over the Kansas-Nebraska Act which won his presidency because he didn't have an opinion.
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Dred Scott wanted to sue his owner because they lived on free land. but he could not sue in federal court because he could never be a citizen. This caused the issue of slavery to come up again.
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The response Douglas gave to Lincoln's question if slavery could be voted out before a territory became a state. It proved that there was a way around the Dred Scott decision.
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John Brown led black and white men into Harpers' arsenal to arm slaves so they could rise against their masters. The uprising didn't happen and Brown's men and himself were killed. The North and South reacted very differently to the news of his hanging.
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Because Lincoln was elected seven states were outta here (they seceded).
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The new government was very much like the United States' with a few changes, specifically the acceptance of slavery. Each state was also sovereign and independent which hurt the unification of the South.
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Jefferson Davis became the president of the Confederate States and declared that the time for compromise was over.
