Term | Definition |
Missouri Compromise of 1820 | divided Lousiana peershce into free and slave states |
Senator Lewis Cass of Mishigan | encouraged popular sovereignty, candidate for Democrats |
Popular Sovereignty | power to the people |
President James K. Polk | wanted to extend the 36 30 line to the west cost |
David Willmot | Offered the Wilmot Proviso |
Wilmot Proviso | document stating that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of (the) territory |
North | controlled house of reps. |
South | controlled senate |
Sectionalism | favoring the intresets of one section or region over the inerests of the entire country |
Free-Soil Party | supported the Wilmot Proviso created by antislavery party. |
VanBuren | candidate for free soil party. no slaves in w, protect white jobs |
Zachary Taylor | candidate for Whigs. Won election. |
Henry Clay | Great compromiser |
Compromise of 1850 | Ca = free state, Mexican cession decided by pop. sov., Texas give up land east of rio grande-govt payed debt, no slave trade in capitol, fugitive slave law effective |
Fugitive Slave act | made it a crime to help runaway slaves/ officials could arrest those slaves in free areas |
William Seward | defended antislavery views and rand against Abe Lincon |
John C. Calhoon | argued that letting CA become a free would destroy the nations balance |
Anthony Burns | fugitive slave from Virginia arrested in Boston. his case persuaded many to join abolitionists |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | the antislavery novel |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote uncle tom's cabin and spoke out powerfully against slavery |