Pt.1 Review Quiz Antebellum

Fredrick Douglass

 abolitionist + escaped slave, wrote the life of fredrick Douglass

William Lloyd garrison

 journalist who founded the anti slavery newspaper called the liberator

John brown

violent abolitionist led people to harpers ferry and killed people, was executed; potoatome creek massacre

John C Calhoun

pro slavery guy who supported slavery in the senate, Jackson’s VP, nullification tariff in the tariff of 1828, Yale guy who was cancelled

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe awakened to the injustices of slavery, not from the south, she read a series of essays by Theodore white belt and wrote like him on a fictional account.

The impending crisis of the south

Hilton r helper, talk about how slavery hurt the southern economy

Compromise of 1850

fugitive slave law, diffused tensions between states

Personal liberty laws

 passed by northern state gov in response to fugitive slave laws

Ostend manifesto

document justifying us purchase of Cuba (south green north didn’t)

Lecompton constitution

pro slaves proposal for Kansas which was rigged in favor of slavery. 

Free soil party

opposed popular sovereignty because they didn’t want slaves who were competition in jobs. 

Fire eaters

pro slavery southerners who advocated for secession of the south from the union.

Confederate state of U.S

 government established by the 7 states that seceded from America. 

Constitutional union party

3rd party during the 1960 election; former democrats; goal was to preserve the union

Brooks sumner

was attacked by rep Preston brooks for his speech attacking southerners, seen as southern aggression 

Bleeding Kansas

 result of the chaos (lecompton) shows the tensions

Lincoln Douglass debates

Lincoln was a lawyer from Illinois who challenged Steven Douglas giving Lincoln a lot of publicity which he used to get the republican nomination (gained national recognition).

Panic of 1857

financial crisis affecting the north which made the south way too confident in their economy

Popular sovereignty

 people should be able to directly vote for issues. On their own. 

Missouri compromise

Missouri wanted to be a slave state, 36;30 line, Maine would be free

Nat turners rebellion

1. Went around and killed 6 slave owners and families

2. Nat turner was a slave and led a rebellion

3. He was executed 

4. Most deadly slave revolt

5. Killed 55 white ppl; not good for the anti-slavery movement

Thought he had the will of god (most deadly slave revolt) enforced the idea that southerners slaves would revolt, scaring southerners.

The Gag Resolution (1836)

forbade talks about slavery in the house of reps Shows how pro slavery ideas sweeped into govt

Wilmot Proviso 

unsuccessful attempt to abandon slavery in Mexican territory

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848

End of mexican american war

Led to controversies about who could have slaves or not

Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)

1. Discussion of whether it should be a free or slave state

2. Repealed the Missouri Compromise!!**

3. Allowed for popular sovereignty and ppl could vote for slavery

4. Dangerous bcs it allowed states to eventually become slave states 

5. They had so much political power in congress, which is why they were always fighting for popular opinion

Dred Scott vs Sanford

1. Scott and wife filed to be free from slavery in a free state

2. When its brought to supreme court, they state that african americans are not eriufhjwindejufvu

3. Congress is not allowed to ban slavery in any federal states

4. pro-slavery?

Election of 1860

End of antebellum period

Lincoln wins who angers democrats

Crittenden Compromise

Unsuccessful compromise to permanently let slavery be allowed

South Carolina Secedes

marks the end of antebellum period, antebellum is (before the war)

Cali gold rush 

it is interconnected with western expansion and manifest destiny

Is cali going to be a slave or free state? 

Freeport Doctrine (1858)

Establishes is slavery is legal or not in states

Drafted by democratic senator

Monumental document that has a strong stance about states and slavery

Gadsden purchase

Part of the mexican american war which ends with treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• US paid mexico 10 mil for arizona + new mexico area

  • Used for building southern transcontinental railroad

Second great awakening

congregationalist preachers there is a path to salvation, more happy, eugenics

Transcendentalism

Henry David thro, half Whitman, romantics,  reaction to the (enlightenment which said observable science is real)