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War with Mexico
After the war was over, Mexico City government had no choice but to agree with U.S terms making the territory free. -
Compromise of 1850
added to Norths political power and political debate deepened the commitment of many Northerners to saving the union from secession. California became free and the other states did not decide what they were going to be they would do popular sovereignty. -
Fugitive Slave law
The Fugitive Slave Law was required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate.This drove a wedge between the North and South. -
Underground Railroad
Northern states were free, ex-slaves, and white abolitionists help slaves escape from the South. -
Pro and Con Literature
Uncle Toms Cabin- was a book about an enslaved man named Tom and the brutal white slave owner named Simon. The Publication of the book moved the generation of Northerners to regard the slave owners as cruel and inhuman. -
Pros and Cons of Literature
Southern Authors contrasted the conditions of the Northern wage workers "wage slaves" forced to work long hours in factories. George Fitzhugh was the boldest and best known for questioning the principle of equal rights for "unequal men". Some of his books were Sociology of the South(1854) and Cannibals All!(1857) -
KS NE ACT
This gave the southern slave owners opportunity to expand slavery that had been closed by the Missouri compromise in 1820 -
Republican Party est.
purpose to oppose the spread of slavery in the territories , because it remained mainly in the Northern Party, the success threaten the South. -
Bleeding Kansas
Fighting began between Pro-slavery and Anti-slavery -
Sumner-Brooks Incident
Brooks beat Sumner because of Sumner's verbal attack about democrats. The House voted for Brooks. -
Panic of 1857
Prices for Midwestern farmers dropped sharply, unemployment in the Northern cities increased. -
Lecompton Constitution
contained clauses protecting slave holding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks, and it added to the frictions leading up to the U.S. Civil War. Democrats joined Republicans in rejecting Lecompton Constitution. -
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
The Dred Scott decision increased Northerners suspicions of a slave power conspiracy and induced 1000's of former Democrat to vote Republican. -
Lincoln- Douglas Debates
In what became known as the Free port Doctrine , Douglas said slavery could not have exist in a community if local citizens didn't pass laws to maintain it. It was a series of 7 debates. -
John Browns Raid
John Brown spoke with simple eloquence at his trial of his humanitarian motives in wanting to free slaves; he was hailed as a martyr by many anti-slavery Northerners. -
Election of 1860
Americans understood that there country was moving to the brinks of disintegration after John Browns Raid. The Election of 1860 was a test to see if the Union would survive.
