Antebellum United States Part II  (1846-1856)

Wilmot Proviso

Oregon settlement

common property doctrine

Zachary Taylor

Conscience Whigs

Cotton Whigs

William Cass

Popular Sovereignty Doctrine

“Barnburner” Democrats

Free Soil Party

Salmon P. Chase

California Gold Rush of 1849

New Mexico

Henry Clay

Omnibus Bill

Millard Fillmore

The Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Act 1850

Federal Marshals

Utah

Boston Abolitionists

Battle of Christiana 

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

economic determinism

Hacker-Beard Thesis

1852 Presidential election

Franklin Pierce

Kansas-Nebraska Act  (1854)

Stephen Douglas

“F Street Mess”

William Seward

Republican Party

Abraham Lincoln

Know-Nothings

American Party

nativism

Fusion

Horace Greeley New York Tribune

Bleeding Kansas

New England Emigrant Aid Company

David Atchison

Border Ruffians

Lacompton

Topeka

Wakarusa War

Sack of Lawrence

Charles Sumner

Preston Brooks

Caning of Charles Sumner

John Brown

James Buchanan

Presidential Elections 1856