Events To Civil War

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Popular Sovereignity

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The right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery

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Sucession

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A formal withdrawal of the state from the Union

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Personal liberty laws

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Forbade the imprisonment if runaway slaves and guaranteed that they would have jury trials

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Nativism

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The favoring of native born indians over immigrants

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Confederacy

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Confederate states of america

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David Wilmot

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Help create the Wilmot proviso which aimed to ban slavery in land gained from Mexico

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John C. Fremont

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The famed “Pathfinder” who had mapped the Oregon Trail and led U.S. troops into California during the war with Mexico, as their can- didate in 1856

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James Buchanan

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(Democrat) Pennsylvania.Northerner, friends were Southerners. minister to Great Britain he had been out of the country during the disputes over the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. Thus, he had antagonized neither the North nor the South. Buchanan was the only truly national candidate

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Dred Scott

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a slave from Missouri. Scott’s owner had taken him north of the Missouri Compromise line for several years. Big dispute on whether he was free or not. Trial said he was still a slave.

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Roger B. Taney

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Supreme court chief justice handed the decision that Dred Scott was not free

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Whig Party

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Split over the issue of slavery

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American Party

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roots in a secret organization known as the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner. Members of this society believed in nativism, the favoring of native-born Americans over immigrants

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Know-Nothing Party

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Using secret handshakes and passwords, members were told to answer questions about their activities by saying, “I know nothing”

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Free-Soil Party

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which opposed the extension of slavery into the territories, nominated former Democratic president Martin Van Buren

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Republican Party

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united in opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act and in keeping slavery out of the territories

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Dred Scott v. Sanford

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Dred Scott’s slave master had brought him from the slave state of Missouri to live for a time in free territory and in the free state of Illinois. Eventually they returned to Missouri. Scott believed that because he had lived in free territory, he should be free. In 1854 he sued in federal court for his freedom. The court ruled against him, and he appealed to the Supreme Court.

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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Douglas believed deeply in popular sov- ereignty, in allowing the residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery
Lincoln like many Free- Soilers, believed that slavery was immoral—a labor system based on greed.

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Confederate States of America

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delegates from the secessionist states met in Montgomery, Alabama, where they formed the Confederacy, or Confederate States of America. The Confederate constitution closely resembled that of the United States. The most notable difference was that the Confederate constitution “protected and recognized” slavery

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Wilmot proviso

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meant that California, as well as the territories of Utah and New Mexico, would be closed to slavery forever.

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Compromise of 1850

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which Clay hoped would settle “all questions in contro- versy between the free and slave states, growing out of the subject of Slavery.”

Question 20

Fugitive slave act (1850)

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Which was a component of the Compromise of 1850. Many people were surprised by the harsh terms of the act. Under the law, alleged fugitives were not entitled to a trial by jury, despite the Sixth Amendment provision calling for a speedy and public jury trial and the right to counsel. Nor could fugitives testify on their own behalf

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Underground Railroad

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The “conductors” hid fugitives in secret tunnels and false cupboards, provided them with food and clothing,
and escorted or directed them to the next “station,” often in disguise

Question 22

Kansas-Nebraska Act

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became law in May 1854. All eyes turned west- ward as the fate of the new territories hung in the balance.

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Bleeding Kansas

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as it had become a violent battlefield in
a civil war.

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Free-Soilers

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Pottawatomie Massacre” and quickly led to cries for revenge. It became the bloody shirt that proslavery Kansas
settlers waved in summoning attacks on Free-Soilers.

Question 25

Henry Clay

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Henry Clay came up with the Compromise of 1850

Question 26

Steven Douglas

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Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois picked up the procompromise reins.
To avoid another defeat, Douglas developed a shrewd plan. He unbundled the package of resolutions and reintroduced them one at a time, hoping to obtain a majority vote for each measure individually. Thus, any individual congressman could vote for the provisions that he liked and vote against, or abstain from voting on, those that he disliked. It appeared as though Douglas had found the key to passing the entire compromise.

Question 27

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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In 1852, ardent abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Stirring strong reactions from North and South alike, the novel became an instant bestseller. More than a million copies had sold by the middle of 1853. The novel’s plot was melodramatic and many of its characters were stereotypes, but Uncle Tom’s Cabin delivered the message that slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle.

Question 29

John Brown

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John Brown, an abolitionist described by one historian as “a man made of the stuff of saints.” Brown believed that God had called on him to fight slavery. He also had the mistaken impression that the proslavery posse in Lawrence had killed five men. Brown was set on revenge. On May 24th, he and his followers pulled five men from their beds in the proslavery settlement of Pottawatomie Creek, hacked off their hands, and stabbed them with broadswords.

Question 30

Hariet Tubman

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Helped in the underground railroad

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Democratic Party

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