Us History

house of representives passed and senae failed it

Supporters of slavery viewed it as an attack on slavery by the North

people in the territory or state would vote directly on issues rather than having their elected representives decide.

Whigs and Democrats joined to create a new party to take a stronger stand against the spread of slaveryf

territory gained in the Mexican American war to be a place where slavery was banned

Gold was found

it would upset the balance between free and slave states in the senate

free state because most of the territory lay north of the MIssouri Compromise line

slave state because they feared that if free states gained a majority in the senate the south would not be able to block anti slavery attack

to withdraw

Norhtners wanted the slave trade ablished in washington dc and southners wanted norhtnes ro catch people hwo escaped from slavery

runaway enslaved peopl.e

senator who had a plan to end the crisis dividing north and south

aganist clays proposal and was to ill to give speech but thought california as a free state would expose the south to continued attacks on s

Massachsetts senator and supported clays proposal

California admitted into the Union as a free state and banned slave trade in the nations capital

popular soverignty would be used to decide if the mexican cession territory will be free or slave state and got a new fugitive slave law

allowed special govenment officials to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave

the right to a trial and deprived them of thir freedom and the slave hoder would swear the suspect was the slaveholders property

Fugitive slave act because they didnt like seeing people deprived of freedom also people were escaping to canada

Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

novel about a man who was enslaved and abused by simon legree

Shovkd thousands of people previously unconcerened about slavery southerners thought the book was propaganda and didnt give a fair picture

Senator who pushed 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.

controversy over the Kansas Nebraska act that killed people in Kansas and so Kansas got the nickname

antislavery settler from connecticut who led seven men to a proslavery settlement and murdered five proslavery men and boys

Charles smner talked bad about andrew butler and butlers nephew preston brooks beat sumner with cane until he was bloody and unconscious

enslaved person who had once been owned by a us army doctor

wrote the decision for the OCurt theat Dred Scott was not a free man

Northner who spoke against Dred Scott decision

They debate slavery

seized guns from us army and gave them to enslaved African Americans he thought they would use them to revolt but he got captured before

Guilty of murder and Treason and was hung

Mourned him and considered him a hero

Shocked the North was praising a man who tried to lead a slave revolt and convinved the north was going to get them

President Lincoln