Darty AMH 2010
Chapter Thirteen "A House Divided" Exam Terms
| John Brown, Harpers Ferry, John Brown's raid, Pottawatomie Massacre |
| Northwest Ordinance of 1787, David Wilmot, Wilmot Proviso |
| John C. Calhoun, fire eaters, Robert Barnwell Rhett--Charleston Mercury, Lewis Cass--popular sovereignty |
| Four main arguments/proposals to solve issue of slavery in the west--from in-class lecture |
| Election of 1848, James K. Polk, Concience Whigs, Cotton Whigs, lewis Cass, Zachary Taylor |
| Free Soil Party, "free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men" |
| California Gold Rush, "Forty Niners", Great Debate, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, William H. Seward, Omnibus Bill, Stephen A. Douglas, Compromise of 1850, Millard Fillmore |
| Fugitive Slave Act, responses to FSA: Harriet Beecher Stowe--Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, Uncle Tom, Simon Legree, "Tom Shows", Garner family, "personal liberty laws", underground railroad, Frederick Douglass, |
| Louis Daguerre, Daguerrotypes, photography, Mathew Brady, The Gallery of Illustrious Americans (1850) |
| Election of 1852, Franklin Pierce (Dem), Winfield Scott (Wh) |
| James Gadsden, Gadsden Purchase (1853) |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), Stephen A. Douglas |
| political sectionalism (geographic parties), Democrats, Know-Nothings, nativists, Republicans |
| Election of 1856, Know-Nothings--Millard Fillmore, Republicans--John C. Fremont, Democrats--James Buchanan, "glorious defeat" |
| Jessie Benton Fremont, women's rights, abolition, Harriot K. Hunt, , Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone Blackwell |
| "Bleeding Kansas", New England Emigrant Aid Company, David Rice Atchison, Lawrence, KS, Charles Sumner, Brooks-Sumner Affair |
| Dred Scott Decision (1857), Dred Scott, Roger B. Taney, ruling provisions, rebuttal--Benjamin Curtis, slavocracy |
| Abraham Lincoln (Rep), background, basic beliefs/philosophy |
| Panic of 1857, Lecompton Constitution, Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858), Freeport Doctrine |
| Election of 1860, John C. Breckinridge (S. Dem), John Bell--Constitutional Union Party, Abraham Lincoln (Rep), first election of president without a single southern electoral vote |
| Secession vs. Union, South Carolina secedes Dec 20, 1860, Confederate States of America (Feb 4, 1861), Jefferson Davis--Pres, Alexander Stephens--VP, Constitution of the Confederate States of America (see appendix A-28 to A-35) |
| Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (1861)--main points |