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2nd Great Awakening/Rise of abolitionism~1800-1830
A series of religious revivals starting in 1801, based on Methodism and Baptism. The awakening stressed a religious philosophy of salvation through good deeds and tolerance for all forms of protestant religion. The revivals attracted people of all kind but specifically women, Blacks, and Native Americans. It also had an effect on moral movements such as prison reform, the temperance movement, and moral reasoning against slavery. -
Missouri Compromise-1820
Missouri wanted to join the Union as a slave state, therefore unbalancing the Union so there would be more slave states then free states. The compromise states that Maine joined as a free state and Missouri joined as a slave state. Congress also made a line across the southern border of Missouri saying except for the state of Missouri, all states north of that line must be free states or states without slavery. -
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Era of Crisis
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Gag Resolution-1836
Strict rule passed by pro-southern Congressmen in 1836 to prohibit all discussion or actions on behalf of slavery in the House of Representatives. It passed every year for eight years, eventually overturned with the help of John Quincy Adams -
Election of 1844
Between Henry Clay of the Whigs and James Polk (Democrat). Polk favored expansion, demanded that Texas and Oregon be added to the US and Clay had already spoken out against annexation. Polk won the election by the difference and his views on expansion which was spreading in popularity globally in the country. -
Annexation of Texas
U.S. made Texas a state in 1845. Joint resolution - both houses of Congress supported annexation under John Tyler, and he signed the bill shortly before leaving office. -
Mexican-American war~ 1846-48
Causes: annexation Texas, Mexican relations in the 1840's and particularly the provocation of U.S. troops on the Rio Grande. The first half northern Mexico near the Texas border, with the U.S. Army led by Zachary Taylor. The second half in central Mexico after U.S. Results: U.S. captured Mexico City, Zachary Taylor was elected president, Santa Ana abdicated, and Mexico ceded large parts of the West, including New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California, to the U.S. -
Compromise of 1850
Called for the admission of California as a free state, organizing Utah and New Mexico with out restrictions on slavery, adjustment of the Texas/New Mexico border, abolition of slave trade in District of Columbia, and tougher fugitive slave laws. Its passage was hailed as a solution to the threat of national division. -
Creation of the Republican Party -1854
dedicated to keeping slavery out of the territories, but they championed a wider range of issues, including the further development of national roads, more liberal land distribution in the West, and increased protective tariffs. Was created in response to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act; nominated John C. Frémont for president in 1856 and Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Was
Comprised of Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Free-Soilers, in defiance to the Slave Powers -
Kansas Nebraska Act- 1854
Kansas Nebraska Act- 1854
suspended the Missouri Compromise and left it to voters in Kansas and Nebraska to determine whether they would be slave or free states. the law exacerbated sectional tensions when voters can to blows over the question of slavery in Kansas.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. This began guerrilla warfare. -
Bleeding Kansas-1855-1861
nickname given to the Kansas territory because of the bloody violence there.Kansas was being disputed for free or slave soil during 1854-1857, by popular sovereignty. In 1857, there were enough free-soilers to overrule the slave-soilers. So many people were feuding that disagreements eventually led to killing in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford~1857
Scott was a black slave who had lived with his master for five years in Illinois and Wisconsin territory. He sued for his freedom on the basis of his long residence in free territory. The Dred Scott court decision was handed down by the Supreme Court on March 6,1857. The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was a black slave and not a citizen. Hence, he could not sue in a federal court. -
Lincoln Douglas Debates-1858
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. Douglas won these debates, but Lincoln's position in these debates helped him beat Douglas in the 1860 presidential election -
Election of 1860
Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party candidate Stephan Douglas and John Breckenridge. Country with the split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it has a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union.
