period 5 Flashcards
(11 cards)
manifest destiny
american believed they had the god given right to possess land from atlantic to pacific
- access to more natural and mineral resources
- afford more economic opportunities for settlers
- more lands in west could provide a religious refuge for those seeking such freedoms
wilmot proviso
amendment that said any land gained from mexican american war would not have slavery (did not go through) - growing expansion of westward expansion and question of slavery
gold rush of 1848
-westward migration to the gold
- setup mining camps quickly
- 14,000 to 400,000 people
southern position
- argued that slavery was a constitutional right
- wanted line established in missouri compromise to extend all the way westward to the pacific
free soil position
- northern democrats and whigs thought all land gained in west to be free territory - white opportunity and prosperity
- abolistionidts wanted to ban slavery everywhere
- went on to form new political party “free soil party”
popular sovereignty
- allowed people living in the territory to decide slavery issue for themselves
compromise of 1850
- mexican cession be divided into utah and new mexico states then decided by popular sovereignty
- california admitted as free state
- slavery outlawed in DC
- congress passed Fugitive Slave Act
fugitive slave act
- enable planters in south to get slaves back when they tried to escape north
- northerners were now legally responsible for reporting runaway slaves
- tensions increasing between abolitionists and non abolitionists
underground railroad
southern slaves were given safe passage to north
fleeing plantations
uncle toms cabin
exposed brutal nature in the institution of slavery
helped northerners and abolitionists
kansas nebraska act
divided nebraska into 2 territories
slavery question would be decided by popular sovereignty—-caused tension bc broke the missouri compromise
