1-3 Ch 14 ID's

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• Who: abolitionist, white idealists, free and fugitive slaves
• What: John Brown with his recruits went to go raid Harpers Ferry an arsenal and armory. They would give the weapons to his recruits to start a slave revolt in the south. Marines broke into armory where Brown was taking refuge, and arrested Brown and recruits.
• Where: Harpers Ferry, Virginia
• When: October 16-18 1859
• Sig: John Brown was the first white male to use violence to end slavery. Many southerners were scared so they began to to train their state militias, this would help them during the invasion of the north during the Civil War.  

William H. Seward and the irrepressible conflict

• Who: politician, antislavery, Northern Whig, senator
• What: William gave a speech that said, that the north and souths economic systems are to different and they will create a problem "irrepressible conflict" and one day this problem would lead to the country being either a slave-holding nation or free-labor nation. He also said that the will of God was against the continuation of slavery.
• Where: United States
• When: October 1858
• Sig: The significance of this irrepressible conflict was that it set the problem to what both north and south were fighting about. It was saying if they did not change their economic styles soon that they will face a dilemma where the country will possibly got to war.

Popular (squatter) sovereignty

• Who: Henry Clay, Compromise of 1850
• What: popular sovereignty is the idea that the government is created by the people and for them. this idea was uses in the Compromise of 1850 to allow the Utah and New Mexico territories to choose if they want to be open to slavery or freedom as a state. 
• Where: United States
• Sig: The significance of this idea is that the people are finally allowed the chance to decide if they want their state to be a free or slave state. It undermined the ruling of congress who said that they could chose what state is a slave or free state, even though they had no direct power given to them by the constitution.