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Compromise
of 1850
Missouri
Compromise
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Nationalism
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Sectionalism
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California admitted as a free state
Washington, D.C - Slavery
abolished
Territories won from Mexico - no
new laws
Stronger laws to help slaveholders
recapture runaway slaves
Loyalty to the interests of one's own
region or section of the country,
rather than to the country as a whole
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Kept balance of power between
the free & slave states
Missouri - slave state
Maine - free state
Louisiana Territory - slavery
banned north of Missouri’s
southern border
A love for your own country
and the belief that it is better
than any other country.
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Marshall Court
Decisions
Popular
Sovereignty
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
A series of court decisions that
favored the Federal Government
(national power) over Popular
Sovereignty (state power)
A system in which the residents
of a state or region (people
who live there) decide an issue
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Story outlining the
horrible conditions of
slavery in the South
Popular in the North
with abolitionists
Brought attention to
the issue of slavery
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Law to help slave
owners recapture
runaway slaves
Accused slaves
held without
arrest warrant
Slaves had no right to a jury trial
Federal judge ruled in each case
(paid $5.00 for releasing slave, $10.00 for returning slave to owner)
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Kansas
Nebraska Act
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Abolition
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John Brown
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Potawatomie
Massacre
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Movement to end slavery
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John Brown moved to Kansas to help
make it a free state. He and his sons
murdered 5 proslavery Kansas citizens.
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Got rid of Missouri compromise
Allowed people to vote for slavery in
the territories (popular sovereignty)
Extreme Abolitionist
Pottawatomie Massacre
- along with seven
other men, murdered
five proslavery
neighbors
Led to three years of civil war in
Kansas - Bleeding Kansas
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Dred Scott
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Harper’s Ferry
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Candidate
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Platform
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Led by John Brown (abolitionist)
13 whites, 5 blacks captured the arsenal
(guns) at Harper’s Ferry and killed four
people in the raid
Brown tried to get others to join (including
local slaves), but failed and was captured,
tried in court, and eventually hanged
The issue further divided the nation
between North and South
A statement of beliefs,
usually for a political party
Scott was a slave who sued in the
Supreme Court for his freedom.
Scott lost because:
1. He was not a U.S. citizen so he
couldn’t legally sue
2. He was bound by Missouri’s
slave code so he had to obey
Missouri laws
3. He was property and could not be taken from
the slave owner
Someone who is competing
in an election
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Lincoln Douglas
Debate
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Secession
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Presidential
Election of 1860
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Confederate States
of America
(The Confederacy)
Lincoln dominated
the Northern states
and won the
election due to a
larger population.
The South was
dissatisfied with the
results and seceded.
Formed in 1861 by the Southern
states after their secession from
the Union (when the Southern states left)
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Candidates in the Illinois Senate Race
Lincoln - A house divided against itself cannot
stand
Lincoln - didn’t want slavery to expand to the
North
Lincoln - slavery is a moral, social and political
wrong
Douglas - national government should not make
laws regarding slavery - states should have
sovereignty (choice)
Withdrawal from the Union
(The United States)
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Jefferson Davis
Elected president
of the Confederate
States of America
(the states that
seceded from
the Union)
Alien and
Sedition Acts
Louisiana
Purchase
Manifest
Destiny
Rise of King Cotton
The United States buys a large territory
from France - the US Constitution does
not give the Federal Government power
to purchase new territory.
1820: Cotton = 1/3 of United states exports
1860: Cotton = 2/3 of United States exports
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Law that makes it harder for foreigners to become
American citizens by strengthening the power of
the Federal Government
Law allowing the Federal Government to prosecute
anyone writing bad things about the government
God given right