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Ch16
Ch 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4
Question | Answer |
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Wilmat Provisio | A Proposed law to ban slavery in lands won from mexico |
Fugitive | A runaway slave |
Sectionalism | Loyalty to a state or section, rather than to the country as a whole |
Popular Sovereignty | Allowed the people of a territory decide whether to allow slavery |
Secede | To remove them selves from the US |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Antislavery author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Bleeding Kansas | What Newspapers called the territory after violence and numerous deaths occurred there in 1856 |
Franklin Pierce | President the Supported KS-NE Act |
Gun Warehouse | Arsenal |
Senetor from kentucky-tried to extend MO comp line to PAC | John Crittenden |
Pres. of Confed. States of Am. | Jeff davis |
Leader of the 1859 raids on Harpers Ferry | John Brown |
Repub. candidate for Pres. in1856 | John C. Fremont |
abolitionist who murdered 5 proslavery settlers at Pott. Creek in KS | John Brown |
John Breckinridge | Southern Democratic Canidate in 1860 |
Civil War | War between people of the same country |
Comp. of 1850 | Agreement over slavery under which CA joined the UN as a free st. and a strict fugitive law was passed |
What was the goal of the free soil party? | To keep slavery out of western territories |
Fugitive slave law | Required all citizen to return runaway slaves to owners |
What was Uncle tom's cabin about? | To show the evils of slavery |
What revised the MO Comp. ? | The KS- NE act |
What was the result of the KS-NE act? | Alot of Northerners were angry that slavery was in terr. that had been slave- free for more than 30 yrs. |
How was the Dred Scott desion not true? | It ment that slavery was now legal in all terr. |
KS-NE Act | Divided NE terr. into 2 terr. Kansas and Nebraska |
Why Dred Scott Desion angered northers? | Some hoped it would die out if it was restricted to only the south |
Why did Lincon win election of 1860? | He had carried all of northern votes which outvoted the south |
What did Sen. John Crittenden try to do to save the Union? | He introduced a bill to extend the MO Comp. line to the PAC |