Term
|
Definition
-After war with Mexico, received territory
-California became free state
-Utah and New Mexico status based on popular sovereignty
-Slave trade abolished in DC
-Strengthened fugitive slave laws |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
-1851
-Widely read among people of all classes
-lower literacy rate in South
-Slaves empathized by reader
-childlike, kind |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
-Stephen Douglass Sen. Illinois
-bill for two new territories (Kansas, Missouri)
-popular sovereignty on slaves
-slave owners move to Kansas
-two incedents in Lawrence, Kansas
-slave owners attacked abolishonists (John Brown)
-5 pro slaveries killed in come back |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
pro-slavery constitution - must go to vote
-voters overwhemlingly deny bill. Kansas is free |
|
|
Term
| Dred Scott v Sanford (1852) |
|
Definition
Dred Scott was slave
-went to free territory with owner and owner dies
-decision if he is now free
-vote 7-2, no right to sue b/c not citizen
-All African Americans have no rights or voting
-can't ban slavery in territories |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
-1856 Republicans (anti-slavery) begins
-Stephen Douglass (Illinois) soft on slavery (Democratic)
-Lincoln "House divided we will fall"
Douglass---Freeport Doctrine states ban "slave code" in new states which anted to make slavery unappealing
-LIncoln loses Senate race to Douglass |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
African American men allowed to vote
-700,000 blacks voted
-black political organizations and running for office
-14 blacks elected to House of Reps
-2 Senators from Mississippi |
|
|
Term
| 1st and 2n Reconstruction Acts |
|
Definition
1867 (Military Reconstruction Act)
-reduced South to 5 military districts
-declared martial law in districts
2nd
-put Union troops in charge of voter registration |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Division and Reunion (1829-89) |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
