Chapter 10.3 Flashcards
Know Nothings
Anti immigrant mvm’t that became the American Party
Whig party 1852
Nominate Winfield Scott war hero
- FAIL - end of party
Republican Party
Formed in 1854
- against expansion of slavery
Election of 1856
Rep- JC Fremont - war hero
Dem- James Buchanan
Dred Scott 1857
Missouri slave whose sues for his freedom because his master had taken him had taken into free areas
Says that Missouri compromise is unconstitutional and slaves are property
Roger B Tawny
Supreme chief of justice
Decides dread Scott case
1858
Douglas and Lincoln held seven debate on slavery while competing for a seat in the U.S. Senate
Abraham Lincoln
Started out as a wig in the Illinois state legislature tried to stear a middle course in slavery and joined the Republican Party when the Whig party split
Anti-popular sovereignty
Stephen a Douglas
Illinois, politician who was proslavery and had the Kansas Nebraska act constructed to be proslavery
was for popular sovereignty
Harpers Ferry
Brown gathers men and reads federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry Virginia he hope to inspire slaves to join resolution this is a huge failure and he is stopped by Robert E Lee
Execution of John Brown
Brown says that crimes of the country must be washed away with blood
Democratic Party
Opposed to strong central government
yes for slavery
Republican Party
No for slavery
opposed to the Kansas Nebraska act