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Rodneys Road
Chapter 15
Question | Answer |
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Border ruffians | people from Missouri that crossed the border to vote for slavery. |
secession | withdraw or leave |
states rights | the rights that states have |
martyr | someone who dies for a cause |
arsenal | a place that stores weapons |
popular sovereignty | the law where the states vote if they want slavery or not. |
civil war | a war where a country literally fights itself |
abstain | refrain or stop doing |
secede | leave |
fugitive | someone who left because of war |
sectionalism | the loyalty to a certain area |
Henry Clay | Perposed Missiuori compromise |
Wilmot Proviso | Specified Slavery should be banned in any land abtaned from Mexico |
David Wilmot | Perposed Proviso |
John C Calhoun | said government should have no say to ban slavery |
Zach Taylor | War hero and Whig canadate for 1848 and winner of that election |
Martin Van Buran | Canidate for free soil party in 1848 |
Daniel Webster | apposed Henrys plan to secede if california was admitted as a free state |
Millord Fillmore | Know Nothing canidate of 1856 |