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Unit 10B Vocab
Causes of the Civil War
Question | Answer |
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Henry Clay | co-author of the comp. of 1850 |
stephen douglas | co author of the comp. of 1850; proposed the KS-NE act |
stephen douglas | believed in pop. sov. ran against lincoln for senate in 185, lost pres. election in 1860 |
John C Calhoun | opposed the comp. of 1850, predicted disunion |
comp. of 1850 | worked out when CA applied for statehood |
comp 1850 | outlawed the slave trade in DC |
comp 1850 | split mexican cession into utah and NM, pop. sov. would settle the question of slavery |
fugitive slave act | federal law that required norhterners 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 decition | case involving a slave that sued for his freedom, ruled that slavery could spread anywhere in the US |
dred scott v. sanford | supreme court case that ruled slaves were property; not citizens and that the MO comp. and pop. sov. were unconstitutional |
republican party | political party that formed to stop the spread of slavery, made of abolitionists, free soilers, and northern whigs |
free soil party | formed as a result of the wilmot provisol first party that opposed tthe expansion of slavery |
KS-NB act | law that repealed the MO comp. decided that pop. sov. would settle status of slavery in LA territory |
john brown | abolitionist that had pro-slavery people massacred in KS-planned a slave rebellion in the South |
Charles sumner | northern senator that condemned the violence in KS and was beat with a cane |
Preston brooks | southern congressman that caned charles sumner for his remarks over bleeding KS |
abraham lincoln | republican from IL that opposed the expanision of slavery; elected in 1860 |
Roger taney | chief justive of SCOTUS in dred scott v. sanford |
harpers ferry | US army arsenal in VA that John brown raided |
Pop. sov. | the idea that people of a territoy would vote on the issue of slavery |