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Lesson 21

A Dividing Nation

TermDefinition
Compromise of 1850 the agreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state; allowed the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and creating a stronger fugitive slave law.
confront to meet, especially in a challenge
Dred Scott decision a Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
ensure to make sure or certain
faction a group of people within a larger group who have different ideas from the main group
fugitive a person who flees or tries to escape (for example, from slavery)
Kansas-Nebraska Act an act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories
Lincoln-Douglas debates a series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main issue
Missouri Compromise an agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state
Union the United States as one nation united under a single government. During the Civil War, “the Union” came to mean the government and armies of the North.
Wilmot Proviso a proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War
Tallmadge Amendment an amendment added on to the bill for Missouri to become a state that said that Missouri could join the Union, but only as a free state
"gag rule" Congress voted to set aside all antislavery petitions for ten years, abolitionists called this action the “gag rule,” because silenced all congressional debate over slavery
abolitionist a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery
Fugitive Slave Act a law that forced the return of runaway slaves; the law stated that a person arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal rights, and that any person who helped a slave escape could be jailed
Free-Soilers a small political party that opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories, many moved to Kansas to oppose slavery there after the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed
border ruffians pro-slavery settlers who moved from Missouri to Kansas and were involved in the violence of "Bleeding Kansas"
John Brown an abolitionist, plotted a violent attack on a pro-slavery settlement in Kansas where he and seven others dragged five men out of their homes and hacked them with swords; also planned an attack on an arsenal to provide slaves with weapons for a rebellion
Ostend Manifesto a message sent to the secretary of state by three American diplomats in Ostend, Belgium, that urged the U.S. government to seize Cuba if Spain refused to sell it
popular sovereignty rule by the people, used to describe the idea that the people within a state should be the ones who decide on issues that affect it (for example, slavery)
Abraham Lincoln first Republican candidate to run for president, won the election of 1860, believed that slavery was a moral issue that needed to be solved
Attack on Fort Sumter first attack of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina, soon after SC seceded from the Union and became the first Confederate state
Stephen Douglas a senator that created the Kansas-Nebraska Act, wanted to build a railroad to California, defeated Abraham Lincoln in the Senate race in 1858
Bleeding Kansas A series of violent events in Kansas following the passage of Kansas-Nebraska Act between the Free-Soilers and “border ruffians”
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