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missouri compromise
36 30' line. below slave above free. Missouri to be a slave state and maine to be a free state. -
Whig party
Winfield Scott ran for president in 1852 but he lost. There was northern and southern whigs. -
democratic
Buchanan won 1856 election. He had no north or south preference. -
Wilmont Priviso
Territories bought from mexico can't have slaves. It was never passed. -
Free-Soil
supported restrictive laws on blacks. depended on waged based labor. -
Compromise of 1850
Created fugitive slave act. California created as a state and chose to be free. mexican territories could vote. -
Fugitive act
Slave catchers can go into free states to get slaves back. Anyone who helps a slave escape is a criminal. Part of the compromise of 1850. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this. It opened people's eyes to slavery and changed the american view on it. -
Know-Nothings
Also known as the american party. They split on the slavery issue. -
bleeding kansas
a summer where over 200 people were murdered. violent because of anti-slavery and pro-slavery debates. -
Kansas Nebraska act
Stephen Douglas came up with it with the idea for popular sovereignty and for states to decide free or slave. Abolished the Missouri compromise. -
Republican
opposed the kansas-nebraska act. lacked national organization. -
Attack on Lawrence
pro-slavery settlers attacked anti-slavery settlers. The south was protecting their lifestyle. -
Sumner-Brooks Incident
Brooks beat up sumner because he said something bad about his uncle senator butler . South said Brooks did the right thing standing up for the southern way of life. Sumner was viewed as a martyar in the north. -
Pottawatomie Creek
john brown killed 5 people in an anti slavery act. the south saw it as an attack on their lifestyle. -
Dred Scott vs Sanford
slave tried to win his freedom. his owner died and his family moved to a free state. But he was denied.
