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Compromise of 1850
In the Compromise of 1850, was California admitted as a free state, Texas gave up its claims to lands disputed with New Mexico, slave trade in D.C. was banned, but slavery was legal. In the South, popular sovereignty in Mexican Cession lands, and Texas was paid $10 million for land lost -
California becomes 31st state
Congress finally accepted California as a free labor state under the Compromise of 1850 -
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853 that influenced England's view on the American Deep South and slavery,a novel promoting abolition. -
Election of 1852
Franklin Pierce (Democrat) vs Winfield Scott (Whig); Pierce won landslide -
Gadsden Purchase
1853 treaty, which the United States bought from Mexico, parts of what is now southern Arizona and southern New Mexico. Southerners wanted this land in order to build southern transcontinental railroad, it also showed the American belief in Manifest Destiny. -
“Bleeding Kansas”
A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were pro-slavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. -
Summer/Brooks Incident
• In 1856 Senator Charles Sumner made an abolitionist speech insulting SC Senator Andrew Butler. Brooks heard Sumner's speech and on the Senate floor beat him into a coma with his cane. The beating helped to escalate tensions between north and south -
John Brown Raid
Abolitionist from US who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a mean to abolishing slavery for good. He led the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in 1856. Was trialed to death and was hung. -
Election of 1856
Democrats nominated Buchanan, Republicans nominated Fremont, and Know-Nothings chose Fillmore. Buchanan won due to his support of popular sovereignty -
Dred Scott Decision
A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen. Therefor, they ruled him a slave. -
Lincoln/Douglas Debates
A series of seven debates. The two argued the important issues of the day like popular sovereignty, the Lecompton Constitution and the Dred Scott decision.
