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Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is the belief that expansion was destined to happened. This is the beginning of secetional tension because it’s the first time the nation had to deal with this ordeal. Manifest Destiny caused tension between the nation because of the question whether or not the new territory will allow slavery which leaves the posibility of creating an imbalance between states. -
Abolitionist Movement
The Abolishment Movement was created to end all slavery. William Lloyd Garrison formed the American Anti-Slavery Society and in his work, the Liberator, he wanted immediate and universal emancipation. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was an anti-slavery novel telling about the life of in slavery. This novel created such a stir it changed the political scene of the north by making it more open and the south by stiffening it’s resolve to defend slavery. -
The Pro-Slavery Argument
John C. Calhoun stated slavery was a positive good. He said it was good for slaves because they were equipped with better conditions than the industrial workers and good for the south because it was the only way these people were able to live together. With the pro-slavery argument it caused to the south fueling their beliefs of slavery being a livelihood and will fight much more for slavery as tensions grew, therefore leading to the Civil War. -
The Treaty is Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American war. The treaty was signed for peace between the countries and a payment to of $15,000,000 to Mexico in return of more than 525,000 square miles of land. This help contribute to the Civil War considering with the new land claimed it reopened the question of whether to allow slaves or not. -
Popular Sovereignty in Territories
Border between Kansas and Nebraska. Allowed white men to decide whether they allowed slavery in each territory. The problem with popular sovereignty and slavery became known as the 1858 Lincoln and Douglas Debates. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states. Northern whites resented having to be forcefully moved into hunting slaves against their will. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allowed people to decide (popular sovereignty) for themselves if they wanted to allow slavery with in their borders. Kansas with slavery would violate the Missouri Compromise. -
Bleeding Kansas
Settlers fighting about whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state. Bleeding Kansas led to the establishment of the Republican Party. -
John Brown’s Raid and Nat Turner (slave rebellion)
Nat Turners slave rebellion took place in Virginia during 1831. Rebel slaves killed 55-65 people. It was the largest most deadliest slave uprising. John Brown, an abolitionist organized a small band of white allies and free blacks and raided a government in Virginia. -
Election of Abraham
Abraham Lincoln was elected the sixted to the civil because of his views on slavery. He opposed the expansion of slavery causing many slave owners causing him to be a threat to many disagreeing Americans economic and political views on slave owning. This marks the end of because it’s where Lincoln took a stand for what he believed in and joined with others to fight and eventually win the Civil War.
