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2nd Great Awakening/Rise of Abolitionism
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival movement in the U.S. The Rise of Abolitionism was just what it sounds like. -
Missouri Compromise
Admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri would be a slave state, and the 36 30 parallel would be the divider between slave and free, with all states South would be slave, and all states North would be free -
Gag Resolution
A strict rule passed by pro southern Congressmen in 1836 to prohibit all discussion of slavery in the House of Representatives. -
Election of 1844
James K. Polk won over Henry Clay because Polk promised to annex Texas and seize Oregon, and he believed in Manifest Destiny -
Annexation of Texas
The Republic of Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico on March 2, 1836. Polk annexed Texas then in 1845. -
Mexican American War
Mexico and the US disputed the Texas boundary A war broke out, US won. Mexico sold the US New Mexico and California and acknowledged the Rio Grande as the boundary between the two countries. The US paid Mexico $15 Million. -
Compromise of 1850
-California admitted as a free state
- Formation of governments in rest of lands acquired from Mexico (no restriction on slavery
-abolition of slave trade in District of Columbia
-More effective fugitive slave law (required the return of runaway slaves. It sought to force the authorities in free states to return fugitive slaves to their masters.) -
Kansas Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Creation of the Republican Party
Whigs and Democrats who were mad because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act split off and formed the Republican Party -
Bleeding Kansas
Many skirmishes in Kansas over Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Dred Scott's master died when they were in a free state and Scott claimed that he should be free. Supreme Court (Taney Court) ruled that since he was an African American, he couldn't sue. The Court also ruled that Congress lacked the power to ban slavery in U.S. territories. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
A series of debates between Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. Main topic of debates was slavery. Douglas had no moral position about it, and Lincoln claimed not to care but said that it deprived free people of jobs, and shouldn't spread. But truly he was anti-slavery. -
Election of 1860
Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. This led to civil war.
