• Douglas accused Lincoln of favoring social equality of whites and blacks
• Lincoln accused Douglas of supporting the spread of slavery

1. tripled in size
2. Three million square miles
3. Sixteen to Thirty-one states
4. Population lived west of appalacians
5. Most rapid growth they would ever experience (wealth, industry)

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

it was antislavery

1. Tom- Christ like
2. Simon- evil white overseer
3. Eliza- slavewoman about to lose her child
4. Eva- white child who was close to Tom 

1. Most territory east of the Indian territory had six people per square mile
2. Least populated area was south Florida
3. N. Wisconsin and Michigan had two people per square mile
4. N. Maine was scarcley populated

1. Presbyterian chruch seperated
2. Baptist church seperated
3. Methodist church seperated
4. American party seperated

1. Daniel Webster
2. Henry Clay
3. John C. Calhoun

1. Slavery promoted democracy by ensuring the vote to the qualified people
2. Slavery was an economic engine that created prosperity
3. Slavery provided a life long net of paternalistic benevolence
4. Slavery was a blessing to an inferior race

1. California came in as a free state
2. Southwest territories were to be settled by popular sovereignty
3. stronger fugitive slave law was enacted
4. The slave trade was outlawed in Washington D.C.
5. The Texas-New Mexico border dispute was settled

1. Drove many blacks to flee to Canada
2. Convinced many Northern whites that slavery was a moral wrong
3. Captured slaves were at the mercy of the slave catchers (no right of defense)
4. Federal government enforced it rigourously to avoid a split

1. Southern disaproved of their candidate
2. the urban machines in the north turned out the immigrant vote
3. Democrats promised to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law
4. Peirce had sympathy with the south 

1. The attempt to obtain Cuba
2. The takeover of Nicaragua's government by William Walker
3. The accusation of the Gasten purchase by Mexico
4. The 1854 trade agreement with Japan

1. John Brown and his followers
2. People running across border to cast fraudulent votes
3. Easterners paying the way for people to go to Canada to vote
4. Senator David Atchinson 

1. Breakup of the Whig party
2. Belief that Catholics were against reform and were controlled by the pope
3. Irish immigrants supported democrats
4. Immigrants caused rising crime rates

1. Freemont (Republican)
2. Buchanan (Democratic)
3. Filmore (American/Know-Nothing)

• He had not taken a public stand in the Kansas-Nebraska act 
• Was from the North but agreed with the South

1. slave owners could take their property from state to state 
2. Federal government wouldnt interfere with the movement of slaves
3. encouraged southerners to feel they were right

1. made Brown a noble martyr for anti-slavery
2. raised fear among southerners (slave rebellion)
3. convinced South that cecession was the only response to these actions
4. Deaths of eight of Brown's men and Brown was hanged

1. Breckinridge won the deep south
2. Bell won three states in upper south
3. Lincoln won fives states republican and lost in 1856
4. Bell swept the lower south

1. Federal govt. support for economic development
2. higher protective tariff to aid businesses
3. support for a transcontinental railroad
4. proposal to provide nearly free western land (homestead act)