1. TAV Chapter 8

2. Wilmot Proviso David Wilmot
Land gained from Mexico would not be use to further slavery or indenture servitude
Never passed b/c of threats from John C. Calhoun

3. Popular Sovereignty
Lewis Cass – let the people decide on the issue of slavery

4. Free Soil Party
Against slavery in the West

5. 49ers In 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in CA.
Led to a mass move to CA for gold
By the end of 1849, over 80,000 men had gone west in search for gold

6. Missouri Compromise MO would enter as a slave state
Maine would be carved out of Mass. And be a free state
36-30 would be the line on slavery

7. Compromise of 1850 End slave trade in DC Passed the Fugitive Slave Act
Ended the MO Comp.
Kansas & Nebraska would vote on the slave issue
CA enters as a free state
S. Douglas wanted this for a Northern railway to the West

8. Underground Railroad Based off of RR terms
Series of trails and hiding places for runaway slaves
Night
Canada
Levi Coffin

9. Harriet Tubman
North star
19 trips
$40,000 reward
$1,023,000.00

10. Transcontinental RR Northern and Southern route
Northern from Chicago west
Southern had to go through parts of Mexico
Gadsden Purchase
30,000 sq miles
$10 million

11. Bleeding Kansas

12. Section 2

13. Birth of the Republicans
July 1854, in Michigan
Formed as a protest to the Kansas Nebraska Act.
Anti-slavery platform

14. Know Nothings
The American Party
Anti-Catholic
Nativist

15. Dred Scott Case
Argued that since they were taken to a free state, IL., they were now free.
Supreme Crt. Ruled that slaves are property and not affected by free/slave state status

16. Kansas Constitution Both sides held their own referendum
Each side went with what they wanted
Buchanan sided with the Lecompton Const. and slavery.
Congress blocked the decision
1858, Kansans voted to reject Lecompton – No slavery
Statehood in 1861

17. Lincoln Douglas Debates
1858 Senate Race
A House Divided Speech
Winner/Loser

18. John Brown
Role in Kansas
Harper’s Ferry
Oct. 16, 1859 raid

19. Section 3

20. 1860 Election 4 way race Republican - Abraham Lincoln
Constitutional Union – John Bell
Northern Democrat – Stephen Douglas
Southern Democrat – John Breckinridge

21. Lincoln Wins Almost no support in the South
Even in IL south of Mt. Vernon Lincoln only received 5,000 votes.
S.C. secedes after the electoral college declares him the winner in December.

22. Crittenden’s Compromise
Sen. John J. Crittenden of KY proposed extending the line to CA and leaving the N. free and S. slavery protected
Lincoln urged Rep. to stand against it & it failed.

23. Lower South States in the Lower South met in Montgomery, AL.
States are independent
Guaranteed slavery
Banned import of slaves
Banned protective tariffs
President served a single 6 year term

24. Jefferson Davis Confed. Pres. Former Senator of MS
Fought in the Black Hawk War

25. Lincoln’s Inauguration
March 4, 1861
Lets the S. know they have the ability to fix the crisis at hand.

26. Fort Sumter
The N. is getting ready to attempt to resupply the fort in Charleston Harbor.
To prevent the resupply the S. under Beauregard attacks the Fort.
33 hours later Major Robt. Anderson surrenders to the S.

27. Volunteers
Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers to serve for 90 days to help put down the “rebellion.”
States in the Upper South secede from the Union also
11 total

28. Border States Delaware, Maryland, KY, MO, & W. VA.
Martial law declared in Baltimore to stop attacks on Fed. Troops.
If Maryland secedes then DC will be surrounded
KY & MO