Free Soil and Nativism

 

American Party  (1854-56)

     -Know-Nothing Party

Nativism

     -Temperance

     -Parochial Schools

Republican Party  (1854-)

     -Abraham Lincoln
 

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men

     -John C. Fremont  (1856)

Deference

     -Democracy

Westward Expansion

     -Industrial Revolution
 

Republican Party

     -Farmers

     -Artisans and Businessmen

     -Factory Workers
 

Cavalier Myth

Cotton Culture

      -Soil Erosion

Outside Agitators

     -State's Rights
 

Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

     -Roger B. Taney

     -Missouri Compromise (1820)
 

John Brown

      -Pottawatomie, Kansas (1856)

      -Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1859)

Election of 1860  

     
         Immigration, 1840-1860

     
Legal Status of Slavery, 1776-1860

                    Election of 1860

             
                     Secession, 1860-1861