Unit 7: The Civil War

term that means rule by the people

• Popular Sovereignty

• Personal Libery Laws

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Representative Democracy

Part of the Compromise of 1850 that pleased just the North...

• California = free state

• Fugitive Slave Act – runaway slaves must be returned to South

• Texas paid $10 million to release claim to New Mexico lands

• Slavery in Utah and New Mexico territories to be decided by popular sovereignty

Part of the Compromise of 1850 that pleased just the South...

• California = free state

• Fugitive Slave Act – runaway slaves must be returned to South

• Buying/selling slaves banned in DC, but practicing slavery in DC could continue

• Texas paid $10 million to release claim to New Mexico lands

Part of the Compromise of 1850 that pleased BOTH the north and south...

• California = free state

• Fugitive Slave Act – runaway slaves must be returned to South

• Buying/selling slaves banned in DC, but practicing slavery in DC could continue

• Maine = free state

Part of the Compromise of 1850, laws placing restrictions on slaves

• Personal Liberty Laws

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Underground Railroad

• Slave Codes

Laws, passed by nine northern states, that forbid imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed trial by jury

• Slave Codes

• Personal Liberty Laws

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Underground Railroad

•Book published in 1852 - Instant bestseller

•Anti-slavery, moral not political basis

•Outlined the lives of several slaves, some who become free and some who die at the hands of slaveowners

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Common Sense

• Second Great Awakening

• Emancipation Proclamation

Political Party - established 1834

Beliefs

•Pro-strong federal government

•Northern – opposed the Fugitive Slave Act, mixed on Compromise of 1850

•Southern – wanted slavery, supported the Compromise of 1850 to appear pro-Union

• Whigs

• Democratic - Republican

• Know-Nothing

• Free - Soil

Political Party - established 1840

•Beliefs

•States’ rights

•Limited federal government

•Divided on slavery – leave it as a territory/state issue

• Whigs

• Democratic Party

• Republican Party

• Know-Nothing Party

Political Party - established 1854

•Nickname for the “American Party”

•Very secretive and exclusive, secret handshakes and passwords

Beliefs . -

•Nativism – the favoring of native-born Americans over immigrants

•Anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic

•Divided over slavery

• Whigs

• Know-Nothing Party

• Republican Party

• Free- Soil Party