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| Proposed ammendment by David Wilmot which stated that any territory recieved by the Mexico-American war would become a free territory (slavery = illegal there). This didn't pass the senate. |
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| New political party started in 1850 that opposed teh expantion of territory |
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| - attempt to let the people of a state/territory decide whether the state/territory would allow slavery or not |
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| Split the Nebraska territory into 2 states: Kansas and Nebraska, and ruled that popular sovereignty would decide whether they would be free or slave states. |
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| Anti-slavery activist who, in response to a pro-slavery attack on the free-state town onf Lawrence, Kanses, took his sons and a few friends and killed five pro-slavery settlers. |
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| Dred Scott verses Sanford |
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| court case where a slave named Dred Scott sued for his freedom based on the fact that he and his master had lived in a free state, Illinois, for 4 years. The supreme court ruled that Scott was not free, and that African Americans weren't citizens, so therefore, Scott didn't have the right to sue in the first place, and it further ruled that it was unconstitutional to ban slavery anywhere as it deprived slave owners of their property without due process of law. |
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| President who believed that slavery should not expand but it should be kept in the states |
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