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Unit 10
B Flash cards
Term | Definition |
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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 pres. election in 1860. |
John C. Calhoun | Opposed to the Compromise of 1850. Predicted disunion. |
Compromise of 1850 | Worked out when Cali applied for Statehood. Outlawed slave trade in DC. Mexican Cession split into Utah and New Mexico. Sates would use popular sovereignty to decided the issue of slavery. |
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 that 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 slavery were property and that the MO compromise and popular sovereignty were unconstitutional. |
Republican Party | Political Party that formed to stop the spread of slavery. Made up of abolitionists, Free Soilers, and Northern 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Kansas-Nebraska Act | Law that repealed the MO compromise. Decided that popular Sovereignty would settle that statues of slavery in Louisiana. |
John Brown | Abolitionists that had pro-slavery people massacred in 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. |
Abraham Lincoln | Republican from Illinois that opposed the expansion of slavery. Elected president in 1860. |
Roger Taney | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford |
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. |