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| Compromise of 1850 was the Omnibus bill pushed forward by Douglas and Clay: 5 parts:Assume Texas Debts, Strong Fugitive slave law, California as State, No slave trade in DC, Organize NM and UT |
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| created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed popular sovereignty |
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| Advocated for the takeover of Cuba and making it into a slave state---rejected |
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| Sumner-Brooks Affair 1856 |
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| Preston Brooks beat up Charles Sumner for insulting his uncle (Andrew Butler) in Congress over the Bleeding Kansas |
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| Lecompton Constitution 1857 |
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| Made in rivalry to the Topeka Constitution by Missouri slaveholders who ran across the border to make a slave constitution and send it off to Congress so that Kansas would be a slave state |
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| Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1858 |
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| a series of 7 debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during the 1858 Senatorial Race, set the stage for the 1860 presidential election and it's issues |
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| COST DOUGLAS THE PRESIDENCY!!! backed away from Dred Scott saying that states could simply ignore the Dred Scott decision and make slaveholders leave by being hostile to them |
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| Lincoln v Douglas v Breckinridge v Bell the epic showdown...Lincoln won without 1 single electoral vote in the South, NOT 1!!! So yea everyone in South is now super pissed and calling for secession |
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| Wade-Davis Manifesto 1864 |
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| Said that Lincoln was trying to usurp power from the Congress and that Reconstruction was a congressional matter |
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| Restrictions on the freedom of former slaves, passed by Southern governments. |
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| Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs. |
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| utherford B. Hayes - liberal Republican, Civil War general, he received only 165 electoral votes. Samuel J. Tilden - Democrat, received 264,000 more popular votes that Hayes, and 184 of the 185 electoral votes needed to win. 20 electoral votes were disputed, and an electoral commission decided that Hayes was the winner - fraud was suspected. |
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| A scandal during Grant administration where a bunch of officials were importing and selling whiskey without paying the imports cheating the government out of millions of dollars |
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| Moderate named Franklin Pierce was elected President. Pierce was a northern Doughface |
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| after Kansas Nebraska act, republicans from north flooded into Kansas to try and make it a free state but then people from Missouri rushed in and tried to pass a pro-slavery constitution. Led to Violence and precipitated Civil war |
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| James K Polk's slogan regarding the Oregon Territory. He said we get the entire Oregon territory or we fight Britain but then he reneged because he wanted Texas too...But that's alright because he is Napoleon of the Stump |
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| Democrat - James Buchanan (won by a narrow margin). Republican - John Fremont. Know- Nothing Party and Whig - Millard Fillmore. First election for the Republican Party. Know- Nothings opposed immigration and Catholic influence. They answered questions from outsiders about the party by saying "I know nothing". |
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| Dred Scott v Sanford 1857 |
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| case which established principles in Calhoun Memorandum. Slave is property so people can take them wherever they want |
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| Led a huge but failed slave rebellion that got all the Southerners mad that the North was not doing enough. Made the Southerners scared that they were losing their slaves. Made Kansas a national issue |
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| Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government, including freed slaves, could file an application and evidence of improvements to a federal land office. The occupant also had to be 21 or older and had to live on the land for five years. Signed after secession of South and very important legislation for development of federal land in west |
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| Crittenden Compromise 1860 |
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| basically radical compromise by Crittenden that wasn't really a compromise. Make an amendment that says you can't touch my slaves, extend the 36'30, abolish it in DC and you can't overrule this amendment. Obviously Lincoln refused to agree |
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| Lincoln ran against Democrat General McClellan. Lincoln won 212 electoral votes to 21, but the popular vote was much closer. Lincoln ran with Johnson as his VP |
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| Civil War Amendments 13, 14, 15 |
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| 13 says no slavery, 14 says all people born in US are citizens and under federal jurisdiction, 15 says all males can vote |
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| It imposed martial law on the South; it also called for new state constitutional conventions and forced the states to allow blacks to vote for convention delegates. The act also required each state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and to send its new constitution to Congress for approval. Johnson protested so Congress impeached him |
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| Hayes promised to show concern for Southern interests and end Reconstruction in exchange for the Democrats accepting the fraudulent election results. He took Union troops out of the South. |
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| Defined the legal applications of the 14th amendment. Said privileges and Immunities clause was limited to federal citizenship and not private or state |
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| put in to impeach Johnson because he was blocking Congress from carrying out Reconstruction |
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