SS8H5 Quick Review

The nation had been divided throughout most of the 1850s on questions of states' rights and slavery in the territories. In 1860, this issue finally came to a head, fracturing the formerly dominant Democratic Party into Southern and Northern factions and bringing Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party to power without the support of a single Southern State.

• Election of 1862

• Election of 1860

• Election of 1950

• Election of 1850

A series of 5 bills that we intended to stave off sectional staff. Its goal was to deal with the spread of slavery to territories in order to keep northern and southern interests in balance. California was entered as a free state. The Fugitive Slave Act made any federal official who did not arrest a runaway slave liable to pay a fine.

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Election of 1860

• The Dred Scott Case

Passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to use popular sovereignty to decide whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north.

• Compromise of 1850

• Election of 1860

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Missouri Compromise

Passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave holding interests and Northern Free-Soldiers. It declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.

• The Bloodhound Law

• Election of 1850

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

A decision by the United States Supreme Court that ruled that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves, or their descendants whether or not they were not protected by the Constitution and could never be citizens of the United States. The Court also ruled that because slaves were not citizens. The Court also ruled that slaves as chattel or private property could not be taken away from their owners without due process.

• The Supreme Court

• Dred Scott Decision

• Compromise of 1850

• Georgia Platform

An agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and the anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.

• Missouri Compromise

• Virgina Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision

• Georgia Platform

Prominent Georgia politicians were deciding if the state should accept the terms of the Compromise. If passed, it would give the Free slaves more representation in the U.S. Senate and end the balance of power that had been established for 30 years. Led by Alexander Stephans, Robert Toombs and the promise of the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, Georgia approved the Compromise of 1850. With Georgia, other southern states accepted the Compromise preventing a civil war for 11 years.

• States' Rights

• The Dred Scott Case

• Missouri Compromise

• Georgia Platform

After the Battle of Antietam, though often understood as the document that "freed the slaves," the Proclamation actually said that all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed January 1, 1863. At the point, all slaves in the states that fought with the Union were not freed.

• Election of 1860

• Emancipation Proclamation

• States' Rights

• Compromise of 1850

Refers to the struggle between the federal government and individual states over political power. In the Civil War era, this struggle focused heavily on the institution of slavery and whether the federal government had the right to regulate or even abolish slavery within an individual state.

• States' Rights

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Missouri Compromise

• Georgia Platform