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Ch.15 Vocab.
Ch. 15 Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| an 1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico. | Wilmot Proviso |
| a political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery. | Free-Soil Party |
| Senator of Kentucky, came up with a plan that would please the North and the South. | Henry Clay |
| Senator of Massachusetts supported Clay's compromise. | Daniel Webster |
| Senator of Illinois, he made the Compromise of 1850 became law. | Stephen A. Douglas |
| a series of Congressional laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states. | Compromise of 1850 |
| wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, against slavery. | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852, which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral. | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| an 1850 law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. | Fugitive Slave Act |
| a government in which the people rule; a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue. | popular sovereignty |
| an 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery. | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| extreme abolitionist, caused the attack of the Pottawatomie Massacre. | John Brown |
| the political party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories. | Republican Party |
| "Pathfinder," he wanted California/Kansas to be admitted as free states, nominated for president. | John C. Fremont |
| He took advantage of his absence and was neutral. He became president. | James Buchanan |
| an 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to live in territoris where slavery was illegal; the Court ruled against Scott. | Dred Scott v. Sandford |
| Chief Justice that was for slavery, he made Scott lose the case by stating he was not a citien there, but property. | Roger B. Taney |
| had debates with Douglas. He thought slavery was wrong, but he didn't propose abolishing it. | Abraham Lincoln |
| a federal arsenal in Virginia that was captured in 1859 during a slave revolt. | Harpers Ferry |
| a statement of beliefs. | platform |
| to withdraw. | secede |
| the confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union. | Confederate States of America |
| president of the Confederacy. | Jefferson Davis |
| a compromise introduced in 1861 that might have prevented secession. | Crittenden Plan |
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