proposed but rejected 1846 bill that would ban slavery in the territory won from Mexico in the Mexican war

their main goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories. They nominated New Yorker Martin Van Buren as their candidate for president. antis slavery political party of the mid-1800s

A policy stating that voters in a territory not Congress should decide whether not to allow slavery there

Break away from the union

Legislation based on Clay's proposals. political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state by allowing popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law

The requirement that private citizens assist with apprehending runaway slaves

nullified the fugitive slave act allowed the state to arrest slave catchers for kidnapping

System that existed before the Civil War and which black and white abolitionist helped escaped slaves travel to safe areas especially Canada

a Maryland-born fugitive slave also known as Black Moses

published Uncle Tom's Cabin a powerful condemnation of slavery

Kansas would become slaves state Nebraska would organize as a free state

I New York abolitionist who had moved his family several times in pursuit of opportunities to confront slavery head-on and who made his home near Lawrence. Massacred five proslavery settlers caused bleeding Kansas. Seized the arsenal at Harpers Ferry

term used to describe the 1854 1856 violence between proslavery and antislavery supporters in Kansas

Secret anti- immigrant movement which then became the American party

anti-slavery party that believed that slavery stifled industry as well as moral leaders who feared that slavery encouraged vice

slave who had sued for his freedom

chief of Justice that ruled against Scott and said that slaves and their descendants were property not citizens and therefore were not entitled to sue you in the courts

at 25 he was elected to the Illinois state legislator as a Whig opposed the Kansas Nebraska act and strongly affirmed the idea of black peoples natural rights

rival Illinois politician nicknamed "little giant"

A failed attempt led by Brown to seize the arsenal at Harpers Ferry

Mississippi senator that convinced Congress to adopt resolutions restricting federal control over slavery in the territories

was nominated the vice Pres. by the Southern Democrats,from Kentucky. Was committed to expand slavery into the territories

established in February 1861 by the seven seceding states

1861 proposed constitutional amendment that attempted to prevent secession of the southern states by allowing slavery in all territories south of the Missouri Compromise line

guarded the harbor at Charleston South Carolina

to break away

a group whose main goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories

a proposed law that prohibited slavery in any lands won from Mexico

a policy that allowed voters in a territory to decide whether or not to allow slavery

legislation based in Henry Clay's proposal for concessions by both the North and the South

a law that required the return of runaway slaves to their masters

was morally wrong and wanted to end it

Martin Van Buren

Califirnia would be admitted as a free state

citizens who helped a runaway slave could be imprisoned

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Underground Railroad

John Brown

personal liberties laws

Harriet Tubman

"Bleeding Kansas"

it required all citizens to support the slave system

William Lloyd Garrison

Border Ruffians raided the anti-slavery town of Lawrence, Kansas

an unworkable solution for the territories of Kansas and Nebraska

Dred Scott

Stephen Douglas

Harpers Ferry

Know-Nothings

Republican Party

Roger B. Taney

end the agitation over the issue of slavery

were the property of thier owners

They were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Few Americans would join a rebellion organized by Brown

committed to expanding slavery into the territories

A proposed constitutional amendment that allowed slavery in the Western territories south of the Missouri Compromise line

was chosen as the presedent of the Confederate States of America

Fort Sumter

Confederate States of America

they believed that Lincoln was hostile to slavery

seceded

1860

the attack at Fort Sumter

no state can lawfuly leave the Union by its own action