Chapter 13 Flashcards
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Wilmot Proviso
No Mexican Slavery
Calhoun Resolutions
Obey home state slave law
Popular sovereignty
Vote on slavery
Henry Clay
Compromise of 1850:
Slavery in DC
No trade in DC
Fugitive Slave Law
California is a Free State
Utah and New Mexico (popular)
Zachary Taylor
Started out as president, didn’t do anything though, replaced by Fillmore
Free-Soilers
No new slavery
Election of 1848
Free Soil Party: Martin Van Buren (soil)
Whig: Zachary Taylor (nothing)
Democrat: Lewis Cass (popular)
Millard Fillmore
Replaced Zachary Taylor and backed Henry Clay’s Compromise of 1850
Election of 1852
Democrat: Franklin Pierce (nothing)
Whig: General Winfield Scott (nothing)
Election of 1856
Republican: John C. Freemont (soil)
Democrat: James Buchanan (popular)
Election of 1860
Republican: Lincoln (Soil)
CUP: John Bell (nothing)
Nothern Democrat: Stephen Douglass (popular)
Southern Democrat: John C. Breckinridge (universal)
Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise of 1850:
Counteracted by personal liberty laws
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas got southern support for the railroad by including slavery (popular) in the legislation to create Kansas and Nebraska
It also repealed the Missouri Compromise
Dred Scott Vs. Sandford
Roger Taney agreed with Calhoun that people had to follow the rules of their home states.
Destroyed Missouri Compromise.
Freeport Doctrine
States can disallow slavery by not allowing it