Antebellum United States Part II 
(1846-1856)

Wilmot Proviso

Oregon settlement

“54-40 or fight”

common property doctrine

1848 Presidential Elections

Zachary Taylor (W)

Conscience Whigs

Cotton Whigs

William Cass (D)

Popular Sovereignty Doctrine

“Barnburner” Democrats

Free Soil Party

Salmon P. Chase (FS)

California Gold Rush of 1849

New Mexico

Henry Clay (W)

Omnibus Bill

Millard Fillmore (W)

Stephen Douglas  (“Little Giant”)  (D)

The Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Act 1850

Federal Marshals

William and Ellen Craft

Boston Abolitionists

Battle of Christiana

Underground Railway

Harriet Tubman 

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

economic determinism

Hacker-Beard Thesis

1852 Presidential election

Winfield Scott (W)

Franklin Pierce (D)

Kansas-Nebraska Act  (1854)

“F Street Mess”

William Seward (R)

Republican Party

Abraham Lincoln (R)

Order of the Star Spangled Banner

Know-Nothings

American Party

nativism

fusion parties

Horace Greeley New York Tribune

Bleeding Kansas

New England Emigrant Aid Company

David Atchison (D)

Border Ruffians

Lacompton

Topeka

Wakarusa War

Sack of Lawrence

Charles Sumner (FS)

Preston Brooks (D)

Caning of Charles Sumner

John Brown

Presidential Elections 1856

James Buchanan (D)