Introduced by Stephen Douglas in an effort to bring Nebraska into the Union and pave the way for a northern transcontinental railroad

A decietful document created where people were not allowed to vote for or against a contiution, but for whether the constitution was with or without slavery.

Introduced by Stephen Douglas in an effort to bring Nebraska into the Union and pave the way for a northern transcontinental railroad

Constitutional amendment prohibiting all forms of slavery and involuntary servitude. Former Confederate states were required to ratify the amendment prior to gaining reentry into the Union

Antislavery party in the 1848 and 1852 elections that opposed the extension of slavery into the territories.

Thomas Paine’s anticlerical treatise that accused churches of seeking to acquire “power and profit” and to “enslave mankind.”

Southern nationalists characterized by unapologetic defenses of the South and slavery.

In this speech Lincoln framed the war as a means to uphold the values of liberty and end slavery. This served as the moral clause that the North rallied behind during the war. 

Northern Democrats who obstructed the war effort by attacking Abraham Lincoln, the draft, and, after 1863, emancipation.

This served as a justification for mid-nineteenth-century expansionism in the United States, it will also arguably become the forefather of American Imperialism.