Important Terms The Rise of Southern Nationalism/

The Rise of the Republican Party

J. D. B. DeBow/DeBow’s ReviewCommercial ConventionsCassius ClayHinton Rowan Helper, The Impending Crisis of the SouthFree Soil PartyKnow-NothingsThe Kansas Nebraska Act“The Caning of Sumner”Lawrence RaidFree Labor, Free Soil, Free Men, FremontSlave Power ConspiracyDred Scott Decision

The Rise of Southern Nationalism/ The Rise of the Republican Party

The Rise of Southern Nationalism • 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

Know Nothing Soap

Kansas and Nebraska Territories, 1855

Free State Battery, Kansas, 1856

Kansas Cartoon

Caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks

Dred Scott