... Simeon Kansas Nebraska Act Stephen A. Douglas Violence Slave Power Conservatism 1856 Presidential Election Congressman Mordecai Oliver was pleased with the bill before the House to organize governments in the land once known as the “Great American Desert.” The establishment of the territories...

... Ordinance 1787 Oregon Territory Toombs Robert Abraham Lincoln Franklin Pierce William Henry Seward Republican Party Stephen A. Douglas Illinois John A. Bingham US Constitution Union slavery in the territories President Franklin Pierce glumly took stock in December 1856 as his term sputtered...

... Company Guerra Pablo de la Micheltorana Manuel Stanton Mary Lamson first wife Halleck Henry W Bancroft Herbert slavery Edwin M. Stanton California politics Stephen A. Douglas Kansas Nebraska Panic of 1857 government counsel land cases The Stantons’ honeymoon coincided with one of the most...

... Henry Harvey James E Thomas Corwin William Henry Seward Abraham Lincoln Charles Francis Adams William Pitt Fessenden Maine Peace Conference Plan Washington DC Lincoln’s cabinet constitutional amendment Stephen A. Douglas Crittenden Compromise Their train plunged through the late winter...

... Thirteenth Amendment Would be thirteenth amendment Abraham Lincoln Inaugural Address William H. Seward Fort Sumter constitutional amendment Stephen A. Douglas John A. Gilmer Confederate States of America Smoke smoldered amid the charred ruins of Richmond as the tall visitor wearing a distinctive...

... Stephen A. Douglas James Buchanan Republican Party Democratic Party Lecompton Constitution The visions of violence that haunted Northern politics in the 1850s drove a political realignment. By 1860, a purely sectional party stood on the brink of a dramatic victory that directly precipitated disunion...

...This chapter discusses the campaign strategies of the two main presidential candidates in the free states in the 1860 election, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. Both appealed to voters’ desire to contain the Slave Power and assure access to the West for free white settlers. The core...

...This chapter focuses on Stephen A. Douglas, described by one newspaper correspondent as “very short in stature, but of such physical proportions, aside from this lack, as instantly to attract the attention of a stranger.” The Illinois Democrat had “a very large head, connected with broad...

... and prostitution to describe the spread of slavery into Kansas. Sumner also accused several prominent Democrats of crimes against the territory, including the architect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas, President Franklin Pierce, and Brooks's cousin, Andrew P. Butler. Elderly...

... Clergymen and Kansas Nebraska Act Dexter Reverend Mr Everett William son Gag Rule Chase Salmon Doughfaces Everett Charlotte Gray Brooks wife Magoon Elias Washburn Emory Wise Charlotte Everett daughter Cuba Kansas-Nebraska Act Stephen A. Douglas Free Soil Party After the relative obscurity...