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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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