US History EOC

Ostend Manifesto

This document was a secret plan proposed by American diplomats in 1854 to purchase Cuba from Spain. It caused tensions to raise between North and the South.

Compromise of 1820 (Missouri Compromise)

Agreement between North and South to regulate slavery in new territories. Missouri became slave state, Maine a free state. Slavery banned north of 36°30' line.

Compromise of 1850

A package of laws passed by the U.S. Congress to resolve disputes over slavery in newly acquired territories after the Mexican-American War. The Compromise admitted California as a free state, abolished the slave trade in Washington D.C., and created a more stringent Fugitive Slave Law.

Fugitive slave law

A law passed in 1850 that required all citizens to assist in the capture and return of runaway slaves to their owners.

Popular Sovereignty

The right to vote against or for slavery

State Rights

States wanted to assert their powers and engaged in a power struggle with the federal government over their rights in the UNION.

Stephan Douglas

Created Popular sovereignty and also ran against Lincoln Also created the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Allowed people in territories Kansas and Nebraska to be able to decide if they wanted to be a slave state.

Freeport Doctrine

stated that slavery can be excluded from territories of the US with local laws

Uncle Toms Cabin

a book about the abuse and mistreatment of slaves in the South (Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe)

Harper’s Ferry

Location of a failed slave revolt led by John Brown in 1859. .

John Brown

Tried to start a slave uprising in the South was later hung. South seen him as a terrorist while North saw him as a Hero

Dred Scott

J ust because you step on free land dosen’t make you a free man.

Anaconda plan

North’s plan to trap the South by blocking up ports and cutting off the Mississippi river