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Identifications ch10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wilmot Proviso | bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the war with Mexico, Northerners favored the bill, Southerners opposed it |
| secession | state's decision to leave the union |
| Compromise of 1850 | settle disagreements between free & slave states, proposed by Clay. For the north, California was admitted as a free state and had popular sovereignty as well as the south. For the south only, they were provided with a stricter fugitive slave law. |
| Omnibus Bill | a single document that is accepted in a single vote by a legislature but contains amendments to a number of other laws or even many entirely new laws, wasn't passed because the North |
| Popular sovereignty | proposed by Stephen Douglas- idea that people living in a territory should make their own decisions, especially the decision to admit slavery, provided for the North and South under the Compromise of 1850 |
| Stephen | senator from Illinois who worked to adopt the Compromise of 1850, submitted each plan as a separate bill proposed popular sovereignty |
| Fugitive Slave Act 1854 | run away fugitives were not entitled to a trial by jury, Nor could they testify on their own behalf |
| Underground Railroad | system where conductors would hide fugitive slaves, provided them with food and clothing, and helped them escape to freedom in disguise. Harriet Tubman, Levi Coffin were famous conductors who helped fugitives. |
| Bleeding Kansas | fight for the possession of Kansas, Abolitionists organized a rival government in Topeka in fall 1855, involved "The Sack of Lawrence", "Pottawatomie Massacre", and "violence in the senate" |
| Personal Liberty Law | the resentment to violence to rescue slaves, forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed that they would have jury trials |
| Vigilance Committees | in the North send endangered African Americans to safety in Canada, favored abolition, looked to help escaped slaves |
| Burned in effigy | destroy or hang an image or picture of a person, as a token of public odium |
| Free Soil Party | opposed the extension of slavery into the territories, it received 10 percent of the popular vote, objected to slavery’s impact on free white workers in the wage-based labor force |
| Nativism | favoring of native-born Americans over immigrants, Whig members believed in this |
| Dred Scott vs. Sanford | After his owner died, 1854, Scott sued in the federal court for a lawsuit. Taney believed that he couldn't because he wasn't a citizen, therefore he couldn't sue inside of the United States. Court ruled against him, Scott appealed to the Supreme Court. |
| Republican Party | Whigs held a meeting with antislavery Democrats and Free-Soilers to form this new political party in order to oppose extending slavery in the territories, their main competition was the Know- Nothing Party |
| Harper's Ferry | located in Virginia, place of federal arsenal that John Brown raided to get guns to arm slaves |
| Jefferson Davis | elected former senator of Mississippi was then elected President of the Confederate States of America |
| Know Nothing Party | political party established in 1854, formed to stop the influence of immigrants, split over the issue of slavery in the territories, anti immigration, and anti- Catholic |
| Lincoln Douglas Debate | race for the U.S senate, Lincoln challenges Douglas at a campaign on the issue of slavery and argued their points and views on the debate, Douglas won senate seat |
| Lecompton Constitution | 1/10th of population tried to apply their ideas and opinions what the slavery vote should be for pro slavery or anti slavery in the territories |
| Free port Doctrine | took place during second debate, idea that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it, issued by Senator Stephen Douglas |
| Chattel | any tangible movable piece of property |
| Confederate States of America | confederacy formed in 1861 by the Southern states, established by the seceding states, stressed that each state was to be “sovereign and independent" |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | book published by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852, delivered the message that slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle, based on the slave Uncle Tom |
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