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A bill that proposed to ban slavery in any territory that the Union acquired from the war with Mexico. The Northerners supported it, but the Southerners opposed it because they felt slave were property and protected by the Constitiution.
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members of the Whig Party and the Liberty Party established the free-soil party. A party that wanted to stop the expansion of slavery. It made slavery a key issue in national politics
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To please the North, it proposed to admit California as a free state. To please the South, it included a strong law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slave. The law would also let some territories to decide for themselves about slavery.
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President Taylor was president from 1849-1450. President Taylor wanted to bring peace to the Union but the South wanted slavery in some of the new territories. President Taylor refused to please the South by allowing slavery.
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It was a law in 1850 that helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. The Northerners didn’t want to support the act, but they would be fined for helping the fugitives escape. Many Southerners traveled to the North and captured free
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Was a fiction book that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote about how the slaves were being treated at the plantations. The Southerners didn’t like the book they felt that they were being criticized. The book was popular in the North
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Senator Charles Sumner delivered a speech against proslavery forces in Kansas. The Senator insulted A.P Butler. Preston Brooks a relative of Butler came to a defense and attacked Sumner with a cane as Sumner sat at his desk.
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Republicans nominated Frémont because he wanted to admit California and Kansas as free states. In the south Frémont’s names was not on the ballot. Frémont was also a war hero.
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Buchanan wanted to keep the Union (United States) together. Some of the North supported him because they thought that if Fremont was in office the nation would split apart. Southerners supported him all the way.
