1. Important Terms The Rise of Southern Nationalism/ The Rise of the Republican Party
J. D. B. DeBow/DeBow’s Review
Commercial Conventions
Cassius Clay
Hinton Rowan Helper, The Impending Crisis of the South
Free Soil Party
Know-Nothings
The Kansas Nebraska Act
“The Caning of Sumner”
Lawrence Raid
Free Labor, Free Soil, Free Men, Fremont
Slave Power Conspiracy
Dred Scott Decision

2. The Rise of Southern Nationalism/ The Rise of the Republican Party
Searching for Meaning in the South
Defense of Slavery and Slave Society
Radical Southernism
Slave Trade
Filibusters
The Rise of the Republican Party
Decline of the Whig Party
Bleeding Kansas
Formation of the Republican Party
Dred Scott Decision

3. Know Nothing Soap

4. Kansas and Nebraska Territories, 1855

5. Free State Battery, Kansas, 1856

6. Kansas Cartoon

7. Caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks

8. Dred Scott