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| southerner Dem, slaveholder, tried to ignore the slavery issue in territories from mexico but couldn't |
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| an adddition to a was appropriation bill, suggested banning slavery from new territories, angered southerners, passed through house of rep but not the senate |
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| pro-south, defender of slavery, opposed the Wilmot Proviso, opposed Clay's resolutions, warned that secession may be the only way |
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| citizen of each new territories decide for themselves if they wanted to permit slavery or not -> by Lewis Cass -> ended the Missouri Compromise and let go of Congress's power over slave/free states |
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| northerner whigs who opposed slavery and Zachary Taylor |
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| northern whigs who were linked to northern cloth manufacturers -> needed southern cotton -> supported Taylor and southern Whigs |
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| ex-conscience whigs and antislavery Dem from NY. "free soil, free speech, free labor and free men" |
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| Lewis Cass(Dem) vs. van Burren(FreeSoil) vs. Taylor(Whigs) => taylor won, the only candidate that didn't say anything about slavery |
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| ppl who arrived in CA in 1849, gold rush |
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| taking one's state out of the Union, SC, MI, FL, AL, GA, LA, TX |
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| offered 8 resolutions come in pairs, offering concessions to both sides |
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| supported Clay's resolution, later became the secretary of states |
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| Taylor's vice president, became president after Taylor died |
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| divide the large compromise into small bills to be passed, opposed the fugitive slave act |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852, outraged southerners, thought to be one of the causes of Civil War |
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| Af-Am had no rights of trial and were not allowed to testify in court, ordinary citizens had to help in capturing af-am |
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| Civil Disobedience, disobeying law on moral ground |
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| informal but well-organized system to help enslaved ppl escape |
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| member of Underground Railroad, most famous Harriet Tubman |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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| built to connect the West coast to the rest of the country |
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| $10 million strip of land from Mexico, |
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| pushed through by popular sovereignty, 1854, ended the missouri compromise, NE~free & KA~slave |
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| NewEngland Emigrant Aid Society |
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| armed missourians, voted to supprot pro-slavery kansas |
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| 2 govs and 2 constitutions, war btwn pro and anti |
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| Charles Sumner -> Andrew P. Butler -> Preston Brooks |
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| the canning of charles sumner |
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| former Whigs, FreeSoil and antislavery Dem, later absorbed the Know-Nothing |
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| anti Catholic and nativist, opposed immigration to the us, absorbed by the Rep party |
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| Frémont("the Pathfinder", Rep, anti slave) vs. Buchanan(Dem, make concessions with south) vs. Fillmore(american party) -> buchanan won |
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| Lecompton Constitution 1857 |
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| proslavery, legalized slavery in the territory |
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| doing what god wants, seized fed arsenal at Harpers Ferry, "angel of light" by thoreau |
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| Lincoln(rep)vs. John Bell(constitutional party) vs.Breckinbridge and Douglas(southern dem) => lincoln won |
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| several amendments to the constitution by KY senator |
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| very first battle of civil war, mayor Anderson |
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| military take control of an area and replaces civilian authorities then suspends certain rights, anyone supported secession-> arrested and help without trial |
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