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Legislation | Effect on Slavery |
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Missouri Compromise | Prohibited slavery in all federal territories north of 36° 30’, except in Missouri |
Compromise of 1850 | Opened New Mexico and Utah territories to slavery by applying popular sovereignty, or letting the residents decide when they applied for statehood; ended the slave trade in Washington, D.C. |
Fugitive Slave Act | Part of the Compromise of 1850, this law forced all Americans to return fugitive slaves to their masters or face arrest |
Personal liberty laws | State laws passed in several northern states that allowed slave catchers to be arrested for kidnapping |
Kansas-Nebraska Act | Opened Kansas and Nebraska territories to slavery by applying popular sovereignty |
Person | Significance |
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John Brown | Abolitionist who killed proslavery settlers in Kansas and tried to start a slave revolt in Virginia |
James Buchanan | President from 1857–1861 who did not act to stop South Carolina’s secession |
Henry Clay | Kentucky senator who proposed the Compromise of 1850 |
John Calhoun | South Carolina senator who supported slavery and warned that the South would secede if slavery were threatened |
Jefferson Davis | Mississippi senator who became president of the Confederacy |
Stephen Douglas | Illinois Democrat who believed in popular sovereignty and steered the Compromise of 1850 through the Senate; he defeated Lincoln in the 1858 Senate race but lost to him in the 1860 presidential election |
Frederick Douglass | Former slave and abolitionist who became the face of abolitionism |
William Lloyd Garrison | White abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator who helped organize the American Anti-Slavery Society |
Abraham Lincoln | Republican President whose election in 1860 caused South Carolina to secede |
Dred Scott | The slave who sued for freedom after living in free states and a free territory; his loss in the Supreme Court outraged many northerners and pushed the nation toward war |
Daniel Webster | Massachusetts senator and nationalist who supported the Compromise of 1850 to save the Union |
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Web Code: ncp-1013