Antislavery party in the 1848 and 1852 elections that opposed the extension of slavery into the territories.

A decietful document created where people were not allowed to vote for or against a contiution, but for whether the constitution was with or without slavery.

Passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, it set high penalties for anyone who aided escaped slaves and compelled all law enforcement officers to participate in retrieving runaways.

Federal arsenal in Virginia seized by abolitionist John Brown in 1859 in an attempt to show the ills of slavery and start a revolution. 

Overall abolitionists in the Northern States were largely unpopular and thought to be radicals in spite of the ‘peculiar institution’ known as slavery. 

 A widely read novel that dramatized the horrors of slavery. It heightened northern support for abolition and escalated the sectional conflict.

Southern nationalists characterized by unapologetic defenses of the South and slavery.

This treaty allowed for the United States to gain territory from Texas to Oregon in exchange for $18.25 million in cash and assumed debts.

First major battle of the Civil War and a victory for the South.

Thomas Paine’s anticlerical treatise that accused churches of seeking to acquire “power and profit” and to “enslave mankind.”