CHAPTER OUTLINE

Slavery in the territories Proposals sparked by Mexican Wary Wilmot Proviso Calhoun’s resolutions Popular sovereignty Oregon as free state Election of 1848 Whigs and Taylor Free-soil coalition Barnburners Conscience Whigs Liberty party Martin Van Buren Results California Gold rush Migration Mining frontier Statehood Compromise of 1850 Initial positions Clay’s eight proposals Calhoun’s reply Webster’s plea for union Seward and abolitionists Omnibus bill Toward compromise Fillmore becomes president Douglas’s strategy Terms of the compromise Antislavery reaction Protests of Fugitive Slave Law Uncle Tom’s Cabin Election of 1852 Candidates Results Foreign affairs Ostend Manifesto Diplomacy in the Pacific Opening in China Perry in Japan Kansas-Nebraska controversy Transcontinental railroad Gadsden Purchase Douglas’s Nebraska bill Repeal of Missouri Compromise Antislavery opposition Emergence of Republican party End of Whig party Know-Nothing party New coalition party Battle for Kansas Settlement Elections Clash of governments Pottawatomie Massacre Clash in Congress Election of 1856 Republican nominee Democratic candidate Sectional campaigns Election of Buchanan Worsening sectional crisis under Buchanan The Dred Scott decision The case Court’s decision Calls for a federal slave code Movement for Kansas statehood Governor Walker’s efforts Defeat of Lecompton constitution C. Financial panic of 1857 Causes Sectional reactions Lincoln-Douglas contest Candidates and their views Debates The Freeport Doctrine Lincoln’s moral question Results John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry Election of 1860 Democrats Deadlocked convention Rump Democrats nominate Douglas Proslavers name Breckinridge Republicans nominate Lincoln Constitutional Union party The campaign Results Secession Deep South acts Buchanan’s reactions Federal property in seceded South Last compromise attempts