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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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