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the compromise of 1850

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  • five ideas from henry clay, plan on voting on each idea separately (because congress argued about the ideas overall) from stephen douglas
  • ca becomes a free state
  • stronger fugitive slave laws
  • slavery is legal everywhere (some places like mexican cession have popular sovereignty) but the slave trade is illegal in washington dc
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the free soil party

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  • composed of antislavery whigs and democrats
  • candidate in the election of 1848 was martin van buren who lost but the party still gained some seats in congress
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stephen douglas (democrat)

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  • proposed voting on each idea individually (compromise of 1850)
  • created the kansas-nebraska act (1854)
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popular sovereignty

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government based on the consent of the people

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john brown

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  • against slavery
  • led a group attack during the civil war of kansas
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debate over slavery (1849)

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  • ca wanted to become a free state (this would cause slave states to be outnumbered leading to them seceding)
  • antislavery groups wanted slavery to be outlawed in washington dc
  • southerners wanted stronger fugitive slave laws
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secede

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to leave

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martyr

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a person who dies for a cause

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opinions on slavery

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north: wanted to ban it

south: wanted to keep it, wanted the north to stay out of their buisness

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the Wilmot Proviso

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  • proposed by David Wilmot
  • banned slavery in the mexican cession

-passed in the house, failed in the senate (equal representation)

  • john calhoun argued that slavery shouldn’t be controlled in any territory
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(senator) henry clay

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  • proposed the ideas for the compromise of 1850
  • whig party
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zachary taylor

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  • won the election of 1848
  • whig party
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disagreement (1840’s)

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  • texas became a state which angered people in mexico
  • this started the mexican war (cause was the boundary line)
  • the us received the territories of new mexico and california
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kansas-nebraska act (1854)

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  • due to growing population and ca becoming a free state, congress decided to make a railroad system in the louisiana territory
  • stephen douglas proposed it took place in chicago but some people didn’t like it because that to get there would mean you would have to pass through a free state
  • because of that, douglas proposed to get rid of the missiouri compromise (which kept kansas a free state) and split the kansas-nebraska territory
  • this would also mean that whether a state was free or not depended on popular sovereignty
  • to make kansas a slave state, proslavery groups ran to kansas in order to vote which angered antislavery groups
  • kansas became a slave state but antislavery groups refused to see it that way
  • they made their own constitution causing kansas to have two constitution at the same time
  • this caused a conflict between the two groups known as the civil war of kansas
  • this act drew the north and the south further apart
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fugitive

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a person who runs away from the law

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the election of 1848

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  • zachory taylor (whig-won)
  • lewis cass (democrat)
  • martin van buren (free soil)

(views on slavery were not shared during this election which angered voters)

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fort sumter

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lincoln received a message saying that the group stationed at fort sumter was low on supplies so he sent an unarmed group to deliver supplies but before that group got there, davis made a choice to attack without those supplies present. this started the civil war.

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court case decision (dred scott v sandford)

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  • dred was not a citizen so he was not “allowed” to go to court
  • he was considered property
  • the missouri compromise and popular sovereignty were not constitutionally allowed
  • no one could ban slavery because it would be like taking away a persons property
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the republican party

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  • consisted of antislavery whigs, democrats, and free soilers
  • dissolved the whigs party, gained seats due to popularity
  • wanted slavery banned and wanted to repeal the kansas-nebraska act and the fugitive slave act
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the election of 1852

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  • franklin pierce (democrat)
  • winfield scott (whig)
  • both candidates supported the compromise of 1850
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franklin pierce

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  • won the election of 1852
  • kansas-nebraska act
  • not up for re-election
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roger taney

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the judge on the dred scott v stanford case

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the election of 1860

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this election divided the democratic party

democratic (n) - favored popular sovereignty, rep. was stephen douglas

democratic (s) - favored slavery, rep. was john breckinridge

constitutional union party - formed by moderates from the north and south, no opinion on slavery, rep. was john bell

republican - wanted slavery to stay as it was but banned in the territories, rep. abraham lincoln (who won)

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abraham lincoln

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  • won the election of 1860
  • republican
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uncle tom’s cabin

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  • written by harriet beecher stowe
  • book about the horrors of slavery
  • changed people’s opinion on slavery
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millard fillmore

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  • president after zachory taylor died (compromise of 1850)
  • ran in the election of 1856
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confederate states of america

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  • states that seceded after lincoln became president because of a fear that slavery was going to get banned
  • jefferson davis became president of this confederacy
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dred scott v sandford

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(1846-1857)

dred scott was an enslaved person who lived in a free state but was still denied freedom

(missouri - illinois - wisconsin - missouri)

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the know-nothing party

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an anti-immigration party

(the party disappeard quickly but the nativist movement continued)

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fugitive slave act (1850)

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required slaves to be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state

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the election of 1856

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republicans - john fremont, wanted free territories

democrats - james buchanana, popular sovereignty (won the election)

the know-nothing party - millard fillmore

whigs - divided over the issue of slavery, no candidate

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