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nativism and the know nothings
the know nothings called after their reponses "i know nothing" when asked about their party's position. nativist believe that the u.s should be reserved for those born here, they opposed to immigration and anti-catholic, they thought that catholics were loyalty to foreign power ( the pope) -
wilmot proviso
david wilmot created a law that slaves cant be sand to the south lands which were gain after the maxican-american war even though wilmot try to pass the wilmot proviso it didnt became a law. -
The compromise of 1850
California was considered as the 16th free state of the nation. texas lost claims of boundry from new mexico. fugitive slave law passed demanding that the northen state had to return runaway slaves. -
bleeding kansas
it was a term used to describe the violence in kansas during the mid and late 1850's. -
the fugitive slave law
the fugitive slave law was part of a group of laws of the compromise of 1850. prohibition of slave traiding in columbia. this law prevent the slaves from escaping. -
charles summer beating - preston brooks
charles sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in massachusetts and also leader of the radical republicans of the nation. charles fought to provide civil and vote rights for the freedmen. charles went againt the kansas-nebraska act with his speech "crime against kansas" for admittions to make kansas a free state. -
Uncle tom's cabin - Harriet beecher stowe
an anti-slavery novel made by harriet beecher stowe. this book is mainly about how the life with slaves was during the civil war. -
kansas nebraska act 1854
senator stephen douglas made a bill to divided the lands of missouri into two territories kansas and nebraska. under the temr sof the missouri compromise of 1820 slavery was outlawed from this two territories. -
the new republican party forms
whig party's members establish a new party to oppesed spread of slavery in western territories. republicans gained supporters in the north. by 1860 majority of southern states taht had slaves were in secession if the republican won the presidency. -
the dred scott decision 1857
the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories. As part of the Compromise of 1850, residents of newly created territories could decide the issue of slavery by vote, a process known as popular sovereignty. -
licoln douglas debates
The debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln were held during the 1858 campaign for a US Senate seat from Illinois. The debates were held at 7 sites throughout Illinois, one in each of the 7 Congressional Districts. Douglas, a Democrat, was the incumbent Senator, having been elected in 1847. He had chaired the Senate Committee on Territories. He helped enact the Compromise of 1850. Douglas then was a proponent of Popular Sovereignty, and was responsible for the Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
harpers ferry incident
The raid on Harpers Ferry was intended to be the first stage in an elaborate plan to establish an independent stronghold of freed slaves in the mountains of Maryland and Virginia—an enterprise that had won moral and financial support from several prominent Bostonians. -
lincoln elected president
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates: Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois. -
southern succession - the confederacy
South Carolina Secessionist Convention is called to order. The convention decides unanimously to secede from the United States and appoints a committee to draw up the needed documents. Florida secedes from the Union. They simply replace the term "United States" with "Confederate States" in their constitution.
