Chapter 15 Vocab KL Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
A bill proposed by Wilmot to outlaw all slavery in the territory aquired in the war with Mexico. | Wilmot Proviso |
A political party dedicated to stop slavery. | Free-Soil Party |
A leader that proposed the Compromise of 1850. | Henry Clay |
A senator that supported the compromise. | Daniel Webster |
A senator that made the compromise succeed. | Stephen A. Douglas |
A compromise that admitted CA as a frre state and said no laws to disallow slavery in Mexican Cession and a law will be passed that helps slave owner recapture their slaves. | Compromise of 1850 |
A writer who wrote about slavery. | Harriet Stowe |
A novel about slavery. | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
The law that helped slave owners recapture slaves. | Fugitive Slave Act |
A system were residents vote to decide on an issue. | popular sovereignty |
It opposed the Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territories. | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
An extreme abolitionist. | John Brown |
A combination of Northern Whigs and opponents of slavery. | Republican Party |
Republicans candidate for president | John C. Fremont |
The Democrat president in 1856. | James Buchanan |
A case where a slave claimed he was free after his owner died because he ha lived on free land before. | Dred Scott v. Sandford |
The Chief Justice during the Dred Scott decision. | Roger B. Taney |
A republican nominated to take Douglas's seat in Congress, later he became the 16th president. | Abraham Lincoln |
Where the U.S.'s arsenal is at. | Harpers Ferry |
statements or beliefs | platform |
withdraw from the Union | secede |
The name that the seceded state swore under. The made there own country. | Confederates of America |
The president of the Confederacy. | Jefferson Davis |
A plan to reunite the Union. | Crittenden Plan |
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