Chapter 16 - The Last Attempts at Compromise

________- Decide slavery before entering Union + use force to maintain slavery.

________- People in Kansas + Nebraska vote on slavery.

1848- Gold discovered in ________.

________ are not citizens → Can not sue in federal courts.

________- Slavery shouldnt expand into ANY territories.

________- Railroad + Homestead Act + protective tariff + against slave trade & spread of slavery.

________- Attacked slavery interests.

Greatest influence

Irrelevant

Fails to pass

Sectional voting

Gold discovered in California

Influx of gold hunters ("Forty-niners")

Formed

Adopted by Republican party

Competed w/ Lincoln for Senate

Competed w/ Lincoln for presidency

Harshly criticized

Emotional + stirred abolitionists

Wanted transcontinental railroad

People in Kansas + Nebraska vote on slavery

Formed modern Republican party

John C. Fremont

Harpers Ferry Raid → Martyr in North

Kansas entered as free state

Attacked slavery interests

Slave that lived in free territory

Decide slavery before entering Union + use force to maintain slavery

Railroad + Homestead Act + protective tariff + against slave trade & spread of slavery

Southern Democrats + support slavery & states rights

Constitutional Union Party

Slavery shouldnt expand into ANY territories

Constitutional right to secede from Union

Literature, humanitarian reforms, events

Popular sovereignty + property rights

Anti-slavery vs. pro-slavery

Elected Abraham Lincoln + secession

A nativist political party and movement in the United States in the mid-1850s

An unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican-American War

A controversial political doctrine according to which the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states

A large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field

A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War

A senator, he was one of two nominees of the badly split Democratic Party for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Republican Abraham Lincoln

Required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state

An anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe

The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants

A territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska

Emerged to combat the expansion of slavery into American territories after the passing of the Kansas–Nebraska Act

First reaching national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, he was eventually captured and executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry preceding the American Civil War

The period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854

Occurred on May 22, 1856 in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts

Drafted by pro-slavery advocates and included provisions to protect slaveholding in the state and to exclude free people of color from its bill of rights

A case in which the Court decided that slaves who were descendants of American slaves were not citizens of the United States

A series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate

Demonstrated the divisions within the United States just before the Civil War. The election was unusual because four strong candidates competed for the presidency.

An unsuccessful proposal to permanently enshrine slavery in the United States Constitution, and thereby make it unconstitutional for future congresses to end slavery

The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state