Groups that helped escaped slaves evade the slave-catchers
Vigilance Committees
Sought to bar slavery from any territory gained from the War with Mexico
Wilmot Proviso
Term used to refer to settlers who came from the upper South and Pennsylvania to settle in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois; they were rural and hostile to Yankees
Butternuts
Declared personal liberty laws unconstitutional
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
New Yorkers who supported the Wilmot Proviso and who left the Democratic Party to support Martin Van Buren's 1848 run for the presidency
Barnburners
Principle that there were moral principles more important than the Constitution which should lead the nation to abolish slavery
Higher Law
Regional meeting called by John C. Calhoun to get southern states to unite in opposition to the Compromise of 1850
Nashville Convention
Opposed the spread of slavery into the territories
Free Soil Party
Led a small army to invade Cuba
Narciso Lopez
Slave couple who escaped by the wife pretending to be a sickly gentleman going north for medical treatment accompanied by "his" servant
William and Ellen Craft
Repealed the Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Led filibustering expeditions to Baja California and Nicaragua
William Walker
Pennsylvania village that was the site of violence when Quakers protected escaped slaves from their master
Christiana
Land purchased in the Southwest to facilitate a southern rail route
Gadsden Purchase
Escaped slave who was sent back into slavery when Pierce ordered the marines to help return him to slavery despite the owner's willingness to sell him to abolitionists who wanted to purchase his freedom
Anthony Burns
Black abolitionist who advocated killing slave-catchers
Frederick Douglass
Attempt by Franklin Pierce to acquire Cuba from the Spanish
Ostend Manifesto
Group that advocating increasing the waiting period for naturalization to 21 years
Know Nothings
Men who went on expeditions to Latin American countries to try to conquer that land to expand the slave territories
Filibusters
Group of the Democratic Party that supported expansion and nationalism, including the extension of America to Cuba
Young America
What several free states passed to try to guarantee the freedom of slaves who escaped North
Personal liberty laws
Political party destroyed by the sectional conflicts arising from the Kansas-Nebraska bill
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