Why: California applied for statehood with an anti-slavery constitution. 

Who: 

When: President Taylor presidency (urged to accept california)

Significant:  

• Thomas Jefferson 

When: late 1700's

Who: From Virginia, 3rd President  

what: Federalist split into supporters of Jeffersonian ideas and alexander hamilton 

Significance: Agrarian commerce, state and local officials keep hold of their power. Jefferson's vision was very improtant b/c majority of $ came from exporting food to war torn Europe. Supported expansion (need land for crops)

Who: believed human bondage was a sin and it was their moral duty to end. 

When: in 1790's to early 1800's 

Significance: led to fierce political debates (american anti slavery society made petition to emancipate slavery and got 500,000 signitures), urban riots (Nat Turner staged a bloody revolt, and sectional conflicts(parties). 

When: 1820 

Who: NY  congressman James Tallmadge, Henry Clay

What: many moved to Miss. and when it applied for statehood it wanted to be a slave state. NY congressman James Tallmadge said he would admit them if they were anti-slavery and northern majority blocked entrance

Significance: Clay Proposed Compromised to keep union in tact Missouri: slave state and Maine: Free

When: 1854, President Pierce 

Who: Stephen A. Douglas proposed

What:organized a bill to remove native american rights on the central plains and organized the state of arkansas, 

Significance: to make southerners happy repealed the missouri act and allowed popular sovereighty  and also agreed to making 2 territories Kansaa & nebraska. Finished Whig Party nearly ended democratic. Created new republican party & free soilers (anti slavery). Bleeding Kansas. 

When: 1850's

Who: Missouri senate David Atchison, Free soilers,  

What: Atch: Encourage Miss. residents to go to kansas and vote (proslave). Free Soilers: party of abolitionist went to kansas to vote. 

Significance: over 200 died in gorrilla war between abolitionist John Brown and Proslavery gang (attack on free soil town Lawrence caused brown to come down)

When:all throughout US and always existed

What: Northerners focused on fast-paced business and industry, spending their days manufacturing, shipping, and trading goods. the Southern economy relied on slow and steady agricultural growth. Planting and picking crops was the work of slaves who supported plantation owners' with their labor.

Significance: caused division between S AND N, North's economy didnt need slavery 

When: Began in late 1810's 

Why: factories and farmers turned out more goods and US needed faster cheaper ways of getting to consumers. 

Significance: constructed system of canals and roads: linked states along atlantic coast. also brought migration of people throughout. 

Who:Hamilton, Madison and Jay

When: 1780's 

Significance:Federalist won, constitution made. Influenced many political leader and showed practical republicanism and checks and balances system would keep from tyranny 

What: 85 essays that supported a strong central gov't & constitution and denied that it would cause tyranny 

When: 1780's 

Who: writer: Madison

Significance: challenged belief that republicanism is only for small political units, large state would protect republican liberty b/c more diff. interests are kept in mind 

who: Lincoln made it 

When: September 1862 after battle of antietam 

What: all slavery will be abolished in states that remained out of the union after January 1 1863

Significance: southern states could keep slavery by renouncing secession, none did 

When:  after the war at gettysburg america victory, Nov 1863

who: Abraham Lincoln

Significance 

Where: Soldiers National cementary @ Gettysburg, Penn 

Significance: Lincoln stated reasons for war were to make sure union stayed and to insure equality and rights to all americans