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Unit 11 Vocab
Causes of the Civil War I think
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Henry Clay | Co-author of the Compromise of 1850 |
| Stephen Douglas | Co-author of the Compromise of 1850; proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act; believed in popular sovereignty; ran against Lincoln for Senate in 1858; lost presidential election in 1860 |
| John C. Calhoun | Opposed to the Compromise of 1850; predicted disunion |
| Compromise of 1850 | Worked out when California applied for statehood; Outlawed the slave trade in Washington DC; Split Mexican Cession into Utah and New Mexico; Popular sovereignty would settle the question of slavery |
| Wilmot Proviso | Proposal to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Federal law that required northerners to assist in capturing runaway slaves |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Fictional work used to portray the evils of slavery |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| James Buchanan | Democrat the won the presidential election in 1856 |
| Dred Scott Decision | Case involving a slave that sued for his freedom; ruled that slavery could spread anywhere in the US |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | Supreme Court case that ruled slaves were property; not citizens and that the Missouri Compromise the popular Sovereignty were unconstitutional |
| Republican Party | Political Party that formed to stop the spread of slavery; made up of abolitionists, Free Soilers, and Whigs |
| Free Soil Party | Formed as a result of the Wilmot Proviso; first party that opposed the spread of slavery |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Law that repealed the Missouri Compromise; decided that popular sovereignty would settle status of slavery in Lousisiana |
| John Brown | Abolitionist that had pro-slavery people massacred Kansas; planned a slave rebellion in the south |
| Bleeding Kansas | Reference to the mini-civil war that broke out as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Charles Sumner | Northern Senator that condemned the violence in Kansas and was beat with a cane |
| Preston Brooks | Southern Congressman that caned Charles Sumner for his remarks over Bleeding Kansas |
| John C. Fremont | Republican presidential candidate in 1856 |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican from Illinois that opposed the expansion of slavery; elected president in 1860 |
| A House Divided | Lincoln's famous speak about the Union falling apart over the issue of slavery; given during the Lincoln Douglas debates |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | Seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas as they ran for Senate in 1858; made Lincoln famous in the Republican Party |
| Roger Taney | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford |
| Election of 1860 | Presidential election in which four candidates ran for president; main issue was over the spread of slavery; Republican Abraham Lincoln won and led to southern secession |
| Harpers Ferry | US army arsenal in Virginia that John Brown raided |
| Popular Sovereignty | The idea that the people of a territory would vote on the issue of slavery |
| Pottawatomie Creek Massacre | When John Brown hacked 5 pro-slavery people to death in Bleeding Kansas |
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