1. Period 3 & 7 We will examine the events that led to the formation of the Republican Party. Warm Up: President for a Day Chapter 18 Notes Presidential Chart John Brown

4. Compromise of 1850 Within the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted as a free state The territories of New Mexico and Utah were open to slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty.

5. The Fugitive Slave Law Slaves who reached the North could be returned to the South. Northerners who aided slaves trying to escape were subject to fines and jail time.

10. Kansas Nebraska Act Stephen A. Douglas- proposed the Territory of Nebraska be sliced into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska. Their status on slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty.

11. This Kansas-Nebraska Act ran into the problem of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which forbade slavery in the proposed Nebraska Territory.

12. Rise of the Republicans The Kansas-Nebraska act wrecked two compromises: the Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 The Democratic Party was shattered by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

13. The Republican Party was formed in the Mid-West and it had moral protests against the gains of slavery. It included Whigs, Democrats, Free-Soilers, Know-Nothings, and other foes of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.