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Ch.15 Vocabulary JK
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A bill proposed by David Wilmot that would outlaw slavery in territory gained through the Mexican War. | Wilmot Proviso |
| A party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery-won more than ten seats of Congress in 1848. | Free-Soil Party |
| Created Compromise of 1850 to preserve the Union over the issue of slavery and California. | Henry Clay |
| Mass. senator who supported Compromise of 1850 for sake of Union. | Daniel Webster |
| Held role of winning passage for 1850 Compromise-succeeded. | Stephen A. Douglas |
| A Compromise that settled several differences between the North and South and preserved the Union temporarily. | Compromise of 1850 |
| Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" about the cruelties of slavery and won popularity in the North. | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| A book that read of slavery being immoral and cruel-popular in North, denied in South. | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Law of 1850 that helped slaveholders recapture slaves in the North-people cannot help fugitives-no trial by jury-controversial law. | Fugitive Slave Act |
| System where residents vote to decide an issue-offered to Nebraska and Kansas to decide slavery status. | popular sovereignty |
| Repealed Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allowed those in Nebraska and Kansas to vote for slavery status. | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| An abolitionist who avenged the Sack of Lawrence and murdered proslavery people around 1855-Pottawatomie Massacre-started "Bleeding Kansas". | John Brown |
| Grew from problems of Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854-antislavery and consisted of Northern Whigs, Free-Soilers, and some Democrats. | Republican Party |
| Republican candidate in 1856 who was favored because he did not have a controversial record. | John C. Fremont |
| Democrat candidate in 1856 who won the presidency. | James Buchanan |
| A case where a slave was denied freedom because he was not a citizen and the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional. | Dred Scott v. Sandford |
| The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case-declared that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories. | Roger B. Taney |
| Republican who challenged Stephen A. Douglass for Congress seat in 1858-won popularity in Republican Party. | Abraham Lincoln |
| John Brown tried to rally slaves by capturing the Harpers Ferry arsenal but failed-October 16, 1859. | Harpers Ferry |
| Statement of beliefs for a political party. | platform |
| To withdraw from the Union. | secede |
| New nation formed in early February 1861 by seceded states. | Confederate States of America |
| President of the Confederate States of America in 1861. | Jefferson Davis |
| Presented to Congress in late February 1861 by John J. Crittenden to compromise-failed. | Crittenden Plan |
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