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ch.15 vocab
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wilmot Proviso | an 1846 proposal that outlawed slaver in any territory gained from the War with Mexico. |
| Free-Soil Party | a political party dedicated to stoping the expansion of slavery. |
| Henry Clay | a senator of Kentucky and helped create the Missouri Compromise in 1820. |
| Daniel Webster | a senator fro Massachusetts, supported the compromise for sake of the Union. |
| Stephen A. Douglas | a senator of Illinois, by the end of September, Douglas succeeded, and the plan, now known as the Compromise of 1850, it became a law. |
| Compromise of 1850 | a series of congressional laws intended to settle he major disagreements between free states and slave states. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | was outraged when she heard about the part of the Compromise of 1850 that would help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. |
| Uncle Tom`s cabin | a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852, which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | an 1850 law to help slave holders recapture run away slaves. |
| Popular sovereignty | a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue. |
| Kansa-Nebraska Act | an 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery. |
| John Brown | an extreme abolitionist. |
| Republican Party | the political party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories. |
| John C. Fremont | was a national hero for his explorations in the West and be a strong presidential candidate in 1856 for republicans. |
| James Buchanan | a democrat in the 1856 election and won. |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | an 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to like in territories where slavery was illegal; the Court ruled against Scott. |
| Roger B. Taney | Chief Justice delivered his opinion in the case. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Illinois Republican to challenge Douglas for his U.S. Senate seat. |
| Harpers Ferry | a federal arsenal in Virginia that was captured in 1859 during a slave revolt |
| Platform | a statement of beliefs |
| Secede | to withdrawal |
| Confederate states of America | the confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states after there secession from the Union |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Crittenden plan | a compromise introduced in 1861 that might have prevented secession. |
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