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socialstudies5/17/18
Question | Answer |
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henry clay | leading member of house of representatives for Kentucky under president Madison and Monroe who spoke for the interest of the west and who later served as a U.S. senator and secretary of state |
Daniel webster | was a leading member of the house of representatives for New Hampshire under president Madison and monroe who spoke for the interest of the north and who later served as a representative as the U.S. senator from Massachusettes |
john C. Calhoun | leading member of the house of representatives for south Carolina under president madison and monroe. spoke for the south |
Missouri Compromise | an agreement, proposed un 1819by henry clay, to keep the number of slave states equal to the number of free slave states. |
popular sovereity | government by constant of the governed |
free soil party | anti-slavery party founded in the united states in 1848 to keep slavery out of the west |
secede | to with draw member ship from a group |
compromise of 1850 | an agreement over slavery by which California joined the union as a free state and strict fugitive slave laws were passed |
fugitive slave act | a law passed in 1850 that required all citizens to aid in the capture of runaway slaves |
kansas Nebraska act | act to set borders between Nebraska and kansas |
bleeding kansas | anti slavery groups and slavery group fought in a bloody battle in kansas |
john brown | believed to be the all mighty hand of God believed that slavery is a sin and that the penalty for sinning is death. he would go out and kill any slave owner |
harpers ferry | John Brown's raid was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia |
robert E. Lee | Virginian general who led the confederate army |