Chapter 18

Free Soil party

Gold-rich Californias application for admission to the Union
Compromise of 1850
Stephen Douglas and the ansas-!e"ras#a $ct of 185%
Fugiti&e Sla&e 'a( )aroused opposition in the !orth*
+ierce administration )and prosla&ery e,pansionism*
!icaragua- Cu"a- the Gadsden +urchase- and e,pansionism
.ise of the .epu"lican party
/arriet 0u"man
1illiam 1al#er
Chapter 12
/arriet 3eecher Sto(e
3uchanan and the 'ecompton Constitution
Dred Scott case
'incoln-Douglas de"ates of 1858
4ohn 3ro(ns raid on /arpers Ferry
1850 election and
Secession
Crittenden Compromise