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| removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for some 500 military leaders of the Confederacy. |
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| pro-slavery vs. anti-slavery in kansas because of Kansas-Nebraska Act |
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-Henry Clay
-admit CA as free state
-divide Mexican Cession into Utah and New Mexico, allow popular sovereignty
-give land in dispute between Texas and New Mexico to New Mexico but assume 10 million dollars of Texas debt
-ban slave trade in DC, but people can still own slaves
-new, harsher fugitive slave law |
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-Confederates
-drafted white men (18-35) for 3 yrs service |
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-last-ditch effort to save union
-expanded slavery to all territories below 36 30 line |
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-argued for compromise to keep union together
-alienated supporters |
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-Dred Scott, slave, sues for freedom
-loses case
-South very happy about that |
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-dems unsure of who to nominate
-republicans nominate Lincoln
-new party: Constitutional Union party
-Lincoln wins (obvi) |
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-no blacks at all in new territories
-supported by Whigs and Northern Democrats
-common ground for anti-slavery activists and racists
-did not demand end of slavery
-also advocates for public land grants and internal improvements |
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-Stephen Douglas during LD debates
-communities cannot have slaves without support for slave codes aka communities w/o support for slavery will not enforce slavery laws
-angered Southern Dems |
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-slaves are duty of federal government
-people look for slaves in North
-bring them back to South w.o trial
-protectors penalized |
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-wrote Uncle Tom's cabin
-very anti-slavery
-causes shit-storm |
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| Impending Crisis of the South |
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| -proved slavery is not good for Southern economy |
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-killed 5 pro-slavery farmers in Kansas
-tries to start slave uprising in Virginia (Harper's Ferry) |
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| -advocates for South's rights in new territories |
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-split Nebraska Territory in 2, let both territories have popular sovereignty
-transcontinental railroad |
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| -pro-slavery Constitution for Kansas |
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-slave debates
-Lincoln = moderate
-focus on morality |
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-proposed by Lewis Cass
-in new territories, settlers should vote on slavery |
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-took over from Whigs
-anti-slavery
-made up of free-soilers and anti-slavery democrats and whigs
-want repeal of fugitive slave act and kansas-nebraska act |
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| -political power of the slaveholding class in the South |
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-behind Kansas-Nebraska Act
-LD Debates |
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-Sumner bad-mouthed Brooks (both are senators)
-Brooks' nephew beats him with Cane
-divided reaction in South |
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-by Harriet Beecher Stowe
-controversial |
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| -network of people to help slaves get to the north |
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