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Slavery
Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. -
Popular Sovereignty
the idea that political power belongs to the people. -
Stephen Douglas
had supported the idea building a railroad to the pacific ocean. ever since entering congress in the mid 1840s. determoned to have the railroad start in chicago. douglas asked a few key southern senators to support his plan. they Agreed to do so if the new territory west of missouri was opened to slavery. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
lincoln challenged douglas and lincoln stressed that the central issue of the campaign was the spread of slavery in the west. he said that the democrats were trying to spread slavery across the nation. his apponent was democrat stephen douglas who had represented illinois in the senete since 1847 august 20th -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847.In what is perhaps the most infamous case in its history, the court decided that all people of African ancestry -
Free Soil Party
a former U,S political party that apposed the extension of slavery in the territories not yet admitted to statehood. -
compromise of 1850
Package of five bills passed in the u.s in september of 1850 which defused a four year confrontation between the slave states of the south and free states in the north. Texas surrendered its claim to new mexico -
Uncles Tom's Cabin
an anti slavery novel written by harriet beecher stowe.the novel spoke powerfully against slavery and was published in 1852. -
Franklin Pierce
Frusterated delegates of the democrats national convention turned to franklin pierce , a little known politician from new hampshire. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
In January 1854, Senator Stephen Douglas introduced a bill that divided the land west of Missouri into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska. -
Political Party
a political party united against the spread of slavery in the west. -
Pattawtomie Massacre
Also known as bloody kansas. It occured May, 25, 1856. The commander was John Brown jr. total deaths were 5 pro slavery men. -
Abraham Lincoln
Lead the u.s through its civil war. abolished slavery in 1858. HE won the election without one southern state vote -
John Browns Raid
began when he and his men took over the asenal in Harpers Ferry, Verginia in hopes of starting a slave rebellion. -
Confederate States of Americia
referred to as the confederate states or the confederacy, was a gov't set up in 1860 by the seven slave states of the lower south -
Secede
to formally withdrawl from a union. carolinia argured that letting california enter as a free state would eventually start a civil war.
