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Missouri compromise
Submitted by Henry Clay, involving the regulation of slavery in the western territories -
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Know Nothing Party
Promised to purify American Politics by limiting or ending the influence of Irish Catholics and other immigrants, thus reflecting nativist and anti-catholic settlement. -
Wilmot Proviso
Would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican war. -
Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo
Peace treaty signed by Americans and Mexico that ended the Mexican- american war. -
Compromise of 1850
Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico about war. California was a free state. Outlawed slavery in the new territories. Created the fugitive slave act. Slave trade was banned in Washington DC. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to return to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Anti-slavery novel by American author, Harriet Beecher Stowe. It helped lay the groundwork for the civil war. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new land for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri compromise -
Gadsden purchase
A purchase by the United States of 29640 square miles of present day Arizona and Southwestern New Mexico. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Series of violent political confrontation in the US involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery, that took place in the Kansas territory and the neighboring towns of Missouri. -
Birth of the Republican Party
The whig party was incapable of coping with national crisis, they met to form a new party in the north. -
Presidential Election of 1856
Presidential election in which James Buchanan won presedency. -
Dred Scot vs. Sanford
A landmark decision by the US Supreme Court in which the court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court. -
Lincoln- Douglas Debates
Series of political debates between Abraham lincoln and Steven A.Douglas in a campaign for one of Illinois' two US senate seats. -
John Brown Raid @ Harper's Ferry
Sent a raid out to Harpers Ferry, so the slaves can find weapons and revolt to ultimately slow down/ stop slavery -
Election of 1860
The presidential election that gave the power of presidency to Abraham Lincoln. -
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Sucession
When the southern states threatened to leave the union.
