Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Slavery is the issue debated by both candidates; Douglas wanted slavery determined by popular sovereignty and Lincoln accepted slavery where it currently was but did not want it to expand into the new territories

We can't survive as a nation if we remain half slave and half free

Tried to start a slave revolt to fight for slaves freedom at Harper's Ferry; he was hung

Supreme Court decision stating slaves were property and could not sue in court.

The final event that cause the south to secede from the union because they feared republican control of congress would end all slavery

Required people in the Free states to help catch escaped slaves & return them to the South.

People of Kansas and Nebraska could decide for themselves whether or not to have slaver; popular sovereignty. Didn't solve the problem of slaver, lead to bleeding Kansas

Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin; wrote about the terrible things that happened in the south to slaves. Influences Northerners against slavery more than anything else; helped support the abolitionists cause.

Helped free slaves on the Underground Railroad

The Great Compromiser who created plans to settle the issue of state hood for California to stop the Civil war for a while.

Allowed each state to decide for itself whether to allow slavery or not.

Loyalty to a state or section rather than the whole country

No slavery in area taken from Mexico (also defeated)

To break away from the union

Set routes to the north with slaves for slaves to hide.

Plan proposed by Henry Clay to keep the number of slave and free states equal.

Agreement over slavery that admitted California to the Union as a free state allow popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah; banned slave trade in Washington DC and passed a strict fugitive slave law.

Civil War breaks out in Kansas between slaver & anti-slavery forces