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Stufflet Unit 8
Unit 8 APUSH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Refers to the growing division between North and South from the founding of the nation until the Civil War | sectionalism |
| the idea that the people who settled a territory should decide the issue of slavery for that territory by voting | Popular Sovereignty |
| 1st proposed by Henry Clay; meant to resolve the dispute over the admission of California and New Mexico as free states | Compromise of 1850 |
| as part of the Compromise of 1850, it said the federal government would be responsible for hunting down runaway slaves; captured persons were denied trial by jury | Fugitive Slave Law |
| proposed by Stephen Douglas (railroad), it divided Nebraska territory into Kansas and Nebraska and allowed popular sovereignty in each place; this effectively nullified the Missouri Compromise line and upset anti-slavery northerners | Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) |
| system developed by some abolitionists to aid runaway slaves on their journeys north (usually to Canada) | Underground Railroad |
| escaped slave who helped run Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
| Supreme Court case which caused increased sectionalism because slaves were deemed property and because it declared Missouri Compromise line unconstitutional | Dred Scott v Sandford (1857) |
| novel which played upon stereotypes to appeal to anti-slavery feelings of northerners | Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) |
| anti-slavery novel which attacked slavery from an economic standpoint (said slavery impeded industrial development) | Impending Crisis in the South (1857) |
| author of Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| author of Impending Crisis in the South | Hinton Helper |
| pro-slavery novel which argued paternalistic slavery protected blacks from becoming "wage slaves" in north | Cannibals All! (1857) |
| author of Cannibals All! | George Fitzhugh |
| term that referred to violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas | Bleeding Kansas |
| federal arsenal in Virginia raided by John Brown in his attempt to start a massive slave revolt in 1859 | Harper’s Ferry |
| radical abolitionist whose raid of Harper's Ferry resulted in his execution | John Brown |
| political party comprised of "conscience Whigs" and anti-slavery Democrats; wanted no expansion of slavery into territories | Free Soil Party |
| one of the two political parties in the 2nd Party system, it died out in the 1850s because it never took a clear stance on slavery | Whig Party |
| northern political party comprised of nativists (old Protestants) who hated Irish Catholic and German Catholic immigrants; took votes from Whigs thus contributing to Whig decline | American Party ("Know Nothings") |
| political party that formed as direct result of Kansas-Nebraska Act; comprised of groups who opposed slavery or its extension (Free Soilers, conscience Whigs, anti-slavery Democrats, radical abolitionists) | Republican Party |
| idea promoted by early Republican Party that said slavery was economically inefficient | free labor ideology |
| Democratic senator from Illinois who believed in popular sovereignty; ran against Lincoln for presidency in 1860 | Stephen Douglas |
| people who wanted to abolish slavery | abolitionists |
| freed all slaves during Civil War only in those areas in rebellion | Emancipation Proclamation |
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