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Nullification Crisis
*was a United States sectional political crisis in 1832–1837
* involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government
*It ensued after South Carolina declared that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of the state.
*Then congress passed a bill saying the President can use military force on South Carolina and Carolina repealed their it's nullification ordinance. -
Wilmot Proviso
*It would forbid the extension of slavery to any territory acquired from Mexico.
*The proviso caused a split among the Democrats as northerners supported it and southerners opposed it.
*Polk eventually got his appropriation, but Congress rejected the Wilmot Proviso after a bitter debate.
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Compromise of 1850
*It was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850
*It defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War.
*The compromise, drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
*It is an anti-slavery novel
*by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. *Published in 1852
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
*The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854.
* It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
*The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.
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“Bleeding Kansas”
*Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery people.
*John Brown was a crazy abolitionist
* It was all because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Dred Scott v. Sanford
- An African-American whether enslaved or free, could not be an American citizen *and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court *and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States. *Dred Scott, an enslaved man who had been taken by his owners to free states and territories, attempted to sue for his freedom
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
*The Lincoln–Douglas Debates were a series of seven debates between...
*Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois and..
*Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.
*At the time, U.S. senators were elected by state legislatures; thus Lincoln and Douglas were trying for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois legislature. -
Attack on Harper’s Ferry
- was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859
- by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a com *pany of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene. *Colonel Robert E. Lee was in overall command of the operation to retake the arsenal.
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Election of 1860
- held on Nov. 6, 1860 *in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. *Republicans nominated Lincoln
- the Democrats nominated 3 different people
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South Carolina Secedes
*South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union (Dec. 1860)
*and was one of the founder members of the Confederacy (Feb. 1861).
*The bombardment of the beleaguered U.S. garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861
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Attack on Ft. Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter April 12–14, 1861
*was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army
*started the American Civil War.
*Following declarations of secession by seven Southern states
