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Main differences between the North and the South: Industry, Immigrants and Free States: North. Agriculture and slave states; South.
Wilmot Proviso wanted no more slavery in new land
Secession: Southern states threatened to leave the Union
Compromise of 1850 was a debate over if California should be a free state
Main People Involved with the Compromise of 1850 John Calhoun (against compromise) - Daniel Webster (wanted unity) - Henry Clay (wanted compromise) -Stephen Douglas (made it happen)
Popular Sovereignty: the right of residents of a territory to decide on issues by voting
Stephen Douglas (again) important because he proposed to open the new land to popular sovereignty and repeal the compromise
Millard Fillmore: 13th president supported compromise but did not win second term
Fugitive Slave Act returning escaped slaves enforced as part of the compromise
Personal Liberty Laws: 9 Northern states made laws to keep ex-slaves free and not obey FSA
Underground Railroad: secret network to help slaves escape to free states or Canada
Harriet Tubman conductor on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Beecher Stowe: wrote a book called “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” against slavery
Canning of Charles Sumner Sumner was an act of violence over slavery.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act called for popular sovereignty to decide the slavery issue in Nebraska territory.
Abolitionist, John Brown was considered a martyr to the North but a terrorist to the South.
The nickname “Bleeding Kansas” was used to describe the violent actions during the “Sack of Lawrence” and the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre that took the lives of about 200 people.
Dred Scott was a slave that sued for his freedom after living in a free state. The Supreme Court voted in a decision 7-2 made him a slave again.
Roger B Taney was the Chief Justice that wrote the ruling of the Dred Scott case.
John Brown led the invasion of Harpers Ferry to seize the arsenal and tried to start a slave uprising.
Nativism is the favoring of native-born Americans over immigrants.
The American Party or Know Nothing Party was a political party formed to stop the influence of immigrants. Newspaper editor, Horace Greeley strongly supported the newly formed Republican Party.
James Buchanan was our 15th president of the United States.
Many Southern states called for secession which means to leave the Union.
Election of 1860 Republican National Convention: Republican- US Senator William Seward (fierce abolitionist) v Abraham Lincoln (moderate - did not expect slavery to spread) ● Democrats are split into 2 candidates: Stephen Douglas- North John C Breckinridge- South
Southern states that seceded from the Union formed the Confederate States of America or Confederacy.
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was the Republican candidate who became president. Jefferson Davis was selected the President of the Confederate States of America.
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