-
Wilmot Proviso
A bill meant to ban slavery in new areas acquired from Mexico that did not pass -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Rio Grande is recognized as Southern border with Mexico and the US gains California and New Mexico -
Underground Railroad
A secret passage that helped slaves get free -
Compromise of 1850
Made California a free state and separated the Mexican cession into Utah and New Mexico -
Fugitive Slave Law
Gave slave-owners the right to take back escaped slaves fleeing to the North -
Pro- and Con- Literature
Books that condemned slavery;hated by the South -
Bleeding Kansas
Fights between anti-slavery groups and pro-slavery groups over whether or not Kansas would be a slave state. -
Republican Party established
Created to oppose the spread of slavery into the South -
KS-NE Act
Split Kansas and Nebraska which then would allow them to vote to be slave or free states. -
Sumner-Brooks Incident
When Senator Charles Sumner verbally attacked Democrats, Governor Preston Brooks beat him with a cane. -
Panic of 1857
Financial panic in the North that increased unemployment and lower prices. -
Lecompton Constitution
Document that would make Kansas a slave state that was rejected -
Dred Scott v Sandford
When slave Dred Scott sued to be a American citizen which he didn't win -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Debates on slavery between Abraham Lincoln(anti-slavery) and Stephen Douglas. -
John Brown's Raid
When John Brown tried to start a slave uprising which consisted of arming slaves with guns. -
Election of 1860
Election between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas which would make Lincoln the new President
