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| Compromise of 1820 (Missouri Compromise) | A line was drawn at the 36'30 line within the La. Purchase. Land below the line was slave, above the line was free except Missouri |
| Henry Clay | Wrote Missouri Comp. and Comp. of 1850 |
| Wilmot Proviso | Proposed banning slavery within the Mexican Cession |
| Comp. of 1850 | 1. California comes in free;2. Rest of the Mex. Cession is organized into Fed. territory and will use popular sovereignty; 3. No more slave trade in D.C.;4. Stricter fugitive slave law was passed |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriett Beecher Stowe |
| Stephen A. Douglas | Wanted a railroad from Chicago |
| Stephen A. Douglas | Proposed the Kansas/Neb. Act which would allow Popular Sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska |
| Kansas/Nebraska Act | Overturned the Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
| Popular Sovereignty | "Let the people vote" |
| LeCompton, Kansas | Pro-slavery legislature |
| Border Ruffians | Crossed border of Missouri to vote in Kansas |
| Topeka, Kansas | Anti-slavery legislature met here |
| "Beecher's Bibles" | Guns sent by Henry Ward Beecher to Free Soilers in Kansas |
| Charles Sumner of Mass. | Beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks of South Carolina |
| John Brown | Took revenge about what happened in Lawrence, Kansas by killing 5 people in Pottawatomie Creek |
| John Brown | Believed he had been told by God to get rid of slavery |
| Republican Party | Formed to oppose the spread of slavery into the west |
| James Buchanan | Won the presidency in 1856 |
| Dred Scott | A slave who sued for his freedom on the basis that he had lived in free territory |
| Chief Justice Roger B. Taney | Wrote the majority opinion in Dred Scott Case |
| Dred Scott Decision | 1. Dred Scott was not a citizen 2. His time on free soil did not make him free 3. Missouri Compromise restriction on slavery was unconstitutional |
| Dred Scott Decision | Based on 5th Amend. to Constitution |
| Abraham Lincoln | Born in Kentucky |
| Abraham Lincoln | Joined the Republican Party |
| Lincoln/Douglas Debates | Series of 7 debates between Lincoln and Douglas for the U.S. Senate from Illinois |
| Lincoln/Douglas Debates | Lincoln was opposed to spread of slavery, Douglas for Pop. Sov. |
| Senate election 1858 | Douglas won the election |
| John Brown | Tried to take over an arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia to lead a slave rebellion. |
| Robert E. Lee | Led the Marines that captured Brown |
| Lincoln's election 1860 as President | The reason the South seceded from the Union |
| Lincoln's Election | The South believed he would bring an end to their way of life |
| Secession | Formally withdrawing from the country |
| South Carolina | First State to secede from Union |
| Confederate States of America | Country formed by the Southern states |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Alexander Stephens | Vice President of Confederacy |
| Richmond, Virginia | Capital of the Confederacy |
| Confederate Constitution | Said that slavery would be legal |
| Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter, South Carolina | Beginning of the Civil War |
| Sectionalism | Devotion to one region of the country over the nation as a whole |
| Daniel Webster | Argued in the Senate FOR the compromise of 1850 |
| Daniel Webster | Spoke to the Senate not as a Mass. man, not as a northern man, but as an American |
| John C. Calhoun | Said if Calif. came in free, the Southern states would leave |
| Abraham Lincoln | Tried to assure the South that he would not touch slavery where it existed, but did not want it to spread |
| Simon Legree | Evil overseer in Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Abraham Lincoln | Said, "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong" |
| Sigificance of Uncle Tom's Cabin | Portrayed slaves as people and not property |
| Residents of California | Did not want slavery because they had been part of Mexico and Mexico banned slavery |
| The Great Compromiser | Henry Clay |
| Fugitive Slave Law | Made it a crime to assist run-away slaves in states where it was already illegal. |
