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Abolition
Legislation
Legis. Cont.
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Conflict
Secession
This reform movement called for the
immediate and complete end to
slavery in the United States. It
started in the colonies before the
Revolution, was addressed at the
Constitutional Convention allowing
each state to decide, and continued
with the education, temperance, and
religious reform movements of the
1800’s.
What was
Abolition?
All new states created these, basing
their ideals on the Declaration of
Independence and the main idea that all
men are naturally entitled to liberty. In
1774 Quakers in Pennsylvania ended
slavery. In 1783 the Quock Walker case
ended slavery in Massachusetts.
Between 1783 and 1804, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, New York, and New
Jersey outlawed slavery.
What were
Early State
Constitutions?
This term is the freeing of
individual enslaved persons,
used in a Virginia state law
as an increasing number of
slaveholders began freeing
slaves they held after the
Revolutionary War.
What was
Manumission?
This first white Virginian large-scale
antislavery effort tried to resettle
African Americans in Africa and the
Caribbean. After collecting funds
from private donors, Congress and a
few state legislatures, they purchased
land in West Africa and settled free
African Americans there to form the
nation of Liberia, “Place of
Freedom,” in 1847.
What was the
American
Colonization
Society?
These two abolitionists projected
the abolitionists’ cause in the
media: one white, founding The
Liberator newspaper in
Massachusetts; the other an
escaped slave who purchased his
freedom, founded The North Star
newspaper in New York
Who were William
Lloyd Garrison and
Frederick Douglas?
This law marked the United States’
first attempt to stop the spread of
slavery in newly acquired territories,
stating, “There shall be neither
slavery nor involuntary servitude in
the territory.” This ordinance created
a single Northwest Territory, allowing
settlers to petition for statehood once
the population reached 60,000.
What was the
Northwest
Ordinance?
After serving as president, this man
served in the House of Representatives
battling slavery with his proposed
constitutional amendments: 1st – All
children born on or after July 4, 1842
shall be free; 2nd – No new slave states
shall be admitted to the union; 3rd – No
slavery nor slave trade shall be
conducted in Washington D.C. They
did not pass.
Who was
John Quincy
Adams?
This law was a Federal law written
to enforce Article 4, Section 2 of the
United States Constitution, which
required the return of runaway
slaves. It angered citizens of free
states when updated in 1850, fining
marshals $1,000 for not enforcing it
and allowing the deputation of
citizens in capturing escapees.
What was the
Fugitive Slave
Act?
Also called Clay’s Proposal, this
agreement allowed Missouri to
become a slave state in 1819,
only if Maine was admitted as a
free state and slavery was
prohibited in the territory of the
Louisiana Purchase north of
36’30”N Latitude.
What was the
Missouri
Compromise?
Just months after the war with
Mexico, Representative David Wilmot
proposed this law that would prohibit
slavery in any lands acquired from
Mexico. Senator John C. Calhoun
countered with a proposal that no
government had authority to ban or
regulate slavery from any territory.
Neither proposal passed into law, but
they caused bitter debate.
What was the
Wilmot
Proviso?
Another of Clay’s proposals that had to be
divided into individual proposals by Stephen
A Douglas in order to pass Congress: 1)
California would be admitted as a free state,
2) New Mexico would have no slavery
restrictions, 3) the New Mexico-Texas border
dispute would favor New Mexico, 4) the slave
trade would be abolished in D.C., and 5) there
would be a stronger fugitive slave law.
Northern citizens were angry about advancing
slavery and Southerners said it was the only
way to preserve the Union.
What was the
Compromise of
1850?
With the goal of opening the West
with a transcontinental railroad,
Stephen A. Douglas proposed this act
to create the territories of Kansas
and Nebraska with the right to
choose free or slave. The new
territories were above 36’60” and
would have been free, but the plan
repealed the Missouri compromise to
get southern support.
What was the
KansasNebraska Act?
The antislavery members of the
Whigs and the Democrats joined
forces with the Free-Soilers and
formed this new party, who quickly
won control of the House of
Representatives and several state
governments. Democrats now became
the party of the South and slavery.
The political split on slavery was now
almost completely North vs. South.
Who were the
New
Republicans?
Little known lawyer from Illinois,
Abraham Lincoln, challenged the
long seated Illinois Senator, Stephen
A. Douglas, for his seat and to a
series of debates, known as this,
over the issue of slavery and the
continued existence of the Union.
Lincoln lost the race for the Senate
seat, but gained political notoriety.
What were the
Lincoln-Douglas
Debates?
The Republican candidate, Abraham
Lincoln, won the presidency, against
Stephen A. Douglas in this election, on the
platform that slavery should be left
undisturbed where it existed, but excluded
from new territories. This stance
attracted both anti and pro slavery voters
in the border states (Upper South) who
just wanted to avoid secession. Lincoln’s
name not on the ballots, Southern states
began to secede.
What was the
Election of
1860?
Due to neither the Whig candidate
nor the Democratic candidate
taking a stand for or against
slavery in the 1848 election, antislavery Whigs and Democrats
formed this political party, calling
for “Free Soil, Free Speech, Free
Labor, and Free Men.”
What was the
Free-Soil Party?
Soon after the Kansas-Nebraska Act,
proslavery groups rushed into Kansas to
vote for a proslavery government,
including armed proslavery groups
from Missouri, called border ruffians,
who voted illegally in the Kansas polls.
John Brown (self-appointed by God to
end slavery) and his four sons led raids
on slavery supporters, killing five in
what became known as this!
What was
Bleeding
Kansas?
As the Bleeding Kansas incident spilled
over to the halls of the U.S. Congress,
Charles Sumner lashed out against
proslavery senators, especially Andrew
Butler of South Carolina, in a criticizing
speech called, “The Crime Against
Kansas.” Butler’s distant cousin,
Representative Preston Brooks, walked
into the Senate chamber and beat
Sumner unconscious with a cane.
What was the
Brooks-Sumner
Incident?
Financed by a group of abolitionists,
John Brown led 18 whites and African
Americans on a raid of the arsenal at
this location in Virginia, with the
hopes of starting a nation-wide revolt
against slavery. The raid ended in
failure as then Colonel Robert E. Lee
captured Brown, who was later
executed, leaving fear of more revolts
in the South.
What was
Harpers Ferry?
Most U.S. military forts in the
southern states were immediately
taken over by the CSA, except for
this fort that was attacked by order
of Confederate President Jefferson
Davis as Lincoln tried to send in an
unarmed expedition with supplies.
Southern hostilities against this fort
started the Civil War.
What was
Fort Sumter?
This term describes an
exaggerated loyalty to a
particular region of a country,
highlighting the social and
economic differences between
the North and the South,
industry vs. agriculture, and
freedom vs. slavery.
What was
Sectionalism?
This novel, written by Harriet
Beecher Stowe, used extensive
research of facts and
documents to portray the
horrific daily life of slavery,
greatly educating people in
free parts of the nation about
the reality of slavery.
What was Uncle
Tom’s Cabin?
This Supreme Court decision by Chief
Justice Roger B. Taney stated that
property, such as the slave Dred Scott,
could not sue for freedom because he
was not a citizen and had no rights.
Furthermore, Taney wrote that
Congress had no power to prohibit
slavery in any territory on the basis of
the Fifth Amendment that protects a
person’s right to property.
What was the
Dred Scott
Decision?
Following the lead of South
Carolina, the other states of the
Deep South seceded and sent
representatives to Montgomery,
Alabama to form this, or formally
called the Confederate States of
America, with Jefferson Davis,
Senator from Mississippi, as their
president.
What was the
Confederacy?
Southerners justified their secession
from the Union with this theory,
arguing that states voluntarily chose
to enter the Union with the
understanding that the federal
government would protect the rights
afforded to citizens by individual
states or territories, specifically
centering on their right to own
slaves.
What was the
States’ Rights
Doctrine?