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1. The Antebellum South2. Slavery and the “Cotton
Kingdom”3. Compromise of 18204. The Abolitionist movement5. Slavery and the Mexican
Cession 6. Compromise of 18507. Fugitive Slave Act (1850)8. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)9. “Bleeding Kansas”10. The Republican Party11. Election of 185612. Dred Scott Case (1857)13. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
(1858)14. John Brown’s Raid (1859)15. Election of 1860
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Large Slaveholders
Small Slaveholders Yeomen Farmers Poor Whites Slaves
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The Stono Rebellion (1739, South Carolina)
Gabriel’s Rebellion(1800, Virginia) Louisiana Territory Slave Rebellion, led by Denmark Vessey Plot (1822, South
Carolina) Nat Turner’s (1831, Virginia)
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Henry Clay fashions an agreement Maine enters union as free state Missouri enters union as slave state All territory north of 36° 30´ closed to
slavery in Louisiana Purchase region Thomas Jefferson: “Fire Bell in the Night”
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Abolitionist - a vocal
minority Demand end to the
institution Violation of the Bible Emphasis on cruel
and inhuman treatment
Degraded both slave and master
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – best seller
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Wendell Phillips: orator Frederick Douglass:
former slave and journalist
William Lloyd Garrison: journalist (The Liberator)
Harriet Tubman: former slave, underground railroad
Sara and Angelina Grimké: educators
Owen Lovejoy: journalist
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Territorial division formula: Missouri Compromise (1820);Compromise of 1850; Crittenden Compromise (proposed 1860)
Free-Soil formula: Wilmot Proviso (proposed 1846) – no expansion of slavery
Pro-Slavery formula: John C. Calhoun’s position in 1847; Dred Scott decision (1857) – Federal government cannot restrict expansion
Popular Sovereignty formula: Lewis Cass / Stephen Douglas – let voters decide in territories – Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
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The Wilmot Proviso (1848) Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Act (1850) Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Kansas-Nebraska Act
(1854) “Bleeding Kansas” Brooks-Sumner Incident
(1856) Dred Scott Case (1857) Lincoln-Douglas Debates
(1858) / Freeport Doctrine / Popular Sovergniity
John Brown’s Raid (1859) Election of 1860 Secession of Southern
states, Dec 1860 – May 1861
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Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the ante-bellum South
Peter Kolchin, American Slavery: 1691-1877
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