Important Items to
Review – 1850s, Decade of Crisis
Recognize social, economic, political differences/similarities between the North & South
Henry Clay – Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850 – components/results
Role of Milliard Fillmore in this compromise?
Fugitive Slave Act
Harriet Tubman / Underground Railroad
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) – components/results
“Bleeding
Charles Sumner incident
Election of 1856 (southern threats)
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Lecompton Constitution debate in
John Brown, Pottawatomie Creek (1856) and Harper’s Ferry (1859)
Panic of 1857
Abraham Lincoln/position on slavery debate
Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 (famous speeches)
Views on secession
Formation of the Confederacy / Jefferson Davis
Famous Voices of Crisis:
William Lloyd Garrison à Frederick Douglass à Hinton Helper à Frederick Law Olmstead
George Fitzhugh à James DeBow
Parties:
Democratic Party (secession within the party)
Whig Party (decline after 1852)
Know-Nothing Party
Free Soil Party
à Republican Party
Important Presidential Elections:
1848 Zachary Taylor (Whig) – President defeated
Lewis Cass (Democrat)
Dies 1850 – Milliard Fillmore
1852 Franklin Pierce (Democrat) – President defeated
Winfield Scott (Whig)
1856 James Buchanan (Democrat) – President defeated
John C. Frémont (Republican)
defeated Milliard Fillmore (Know-Nothing)
1860 Abraham Lincoln (Republican) – President defeated Stephen Douglas (Democrat-N)
defeated John Breckinridge (Democrat-S)
defeated John Bell (Constitutional Union Party)
Secession Cause and Effect:
Election of 1860 à Lower South Secession à