Chapter 14

Of the candidates in the 1860 presidential election, the only one who tried to run a national campaign was

Douglas

In the first six months of 1857, Buchanan dealt with

Dred Scott, the Lecompton Constitution, and an economic panic.

Leading advocates of popular sovereignty included

Stephen A. Douglas.

The Free-Soil party was a coalition made up of

Van Burenite Democrats, Conscience Whigs, and members of the Liberty party.

The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court involved

a slave suing for his freedom because his master had taken him into free territory.

An important factor contributing to the Compromise of 1850 was

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Although barely more than 300 slaves were returned to bondage during the first six years of the Fugitive Slave Act, it nonetheless widened and deepened the anti-slavery sentiment in the North.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin became a huge success, due in part to its depiction of the horrors of the Fugitive Slave Act and the interstate slave trade.

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In the Pottawatomie Massacre, John Brown led a raid against pro-slavery settlers in Kansas.

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In the election of 1860, Lincoln received only 39 percent of the popular vote.

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Mining towns in California were extremely dangerous and violent.

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Popular sovereignty left the fate of slavery up to the people in each territory.

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Reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act directly contributed to the formation of a brand-new political party, the Republican party.

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The "Great Compromiser" was Henry Clay.

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The Dred Scott case was significant because it was the first time the Supreme Court declared an act of Congress unconstitutional.

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The Fugitive Slave Act was the most controversial element of the Compromise of 1850.

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As a southern man with Union principles, Zachary Taylor

wanted immediate admission of California and New Mexico as free states.

Four years after Congressman David Wilmot proposed it, the Wilmot Proviso became law as part of the Compromise of 1850.

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In 1850, Daniel Webster called on "a higher law than the Constitution" to demand the abolition of slavery.

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In 1859, John Brown led a pro-slavery raid at Harpers Ferry.

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Stephen A. Douglas delivered "The Crime against Kansas" speech in the Senate.

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The Republican party was committed to upholding the extension of slavery into the territories of the United States.

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Fugitive slave Anthony Burns caused a sensation when

federal marshals captured him in Boston.

The Crittenden Compromise sought to

guarantee slavery where it already existed.

The Compromise of 1850 did not include

maintaining the balance between free states and slave states.

The Wilmot Proviso called for

prohibiting slavery in land gained from Mexico.

In proposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Stephen A. Douglas was initially most concerned about

railroads

The greatest mass migration in American history was

the California gold rush.

The new Free-Soil party came out of the anti-slavery crusade, but the new party's formation ultimately hurt their cause during the election of 1848 because

the Democratic party did not have a candidate.