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7th Grade History
Chapter 15
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Wilmot Proviso | a proposed bill by Rep David Wilmot that outlawed slavery in any territory taken from Mexico |
| Free-Soil Party | a political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery |
| Henry Clay | Senator from Kentucky that helped to draft a plan to settle California called the Compromise of 1850 |
| Daniel Webster | Senator from Massachusetts that supported the Compromise of 1850 for the sake of the union |
| Stephen A. Douglas | Drafted a bill for governing the Nebraska Territory and helped get the winning passage of the Compromise of 1850 |
| popular sovereignty | people vote if their state should allow slavery or not |
| fugitive slave act | law that helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral |
| Compromise of 1850 | The plan that allowed California to enter the union and laws to settle the major disagreement between free and slave states |
| Terms of the Compromise | 1. CA to enter the union as a free state 2. slave trade would end in Washington DC 3. Congress would not pass laws regarding slavery for the rest of the territory won from Mexico 4. a strict new fugitive slave law was passed |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | divides the territory into Kansas and Nebraska and allows a vote for slavery in an area where the Missouri Compromise banned it |
| John Brown | led a massacre of proslavery people |
| Preston Brooks | caned Senator Charles Sumner after Sumner insulted a relative of Brooks in congress |
| border ruffians | people who rushed to vote illegally in areas |
| Pottawaomie Massacre | Led by Jon Brown, in retaliation for Lawrence Kansas, they murdered 5 proslavery people |
| Bleeding Kansas | civil war that brok out in Kansas over slavery….lasted for 3 years |
| 3 candidates in the election of 1856 | 1. James Buchanan (Democrat) * won 2. John C. Fremont ( (Republican) 3. Millard Fillmore ( Know Nothing Party) |
| Republican party | the political party that formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories |
| Dred Scott vs. Stanford | 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to a free territory |
| Roger Taney | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
| Abraham Lincoln | ran against Stephen Douglas for the senate seat in Illinois |
| Harpers Ferry | A federal arsenal in Virginia that was captured in 1859 during a slave revolt |
| What two things did the election of 1856 show? | 1. The Republican Party was a force in the north 2. The nation was sharply split over slavery |
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