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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| willmot proviso | to out law slavery in any territory and the u.s might acqruire from the war with mexico |
| free soil party | a political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery |
| henrry clay | helped create the mossori compormise. Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829. represented Kentucky in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives |
| dainle webster | senetor from massatrusets |
| stephen duoglas | senetor of illinoys |
| compormise of 1850 | it would bring peace for free and non free states |
| harriet beecher | he was angry about the compormise of 1850 helping slave holders so he wrote a book |
| uncles tom cabin | was writen by beecher and portrayed slavery as brutal and imortal |
| fugitive slave act | helps slave holders recapture runaway slaves |
| popular soveringty | a system were residents vote to decide an issue |
| kansses nabraska act | would turn kansses into a battle ground over slavery |
| john brown | an extreem abolinist |
| republican party | it was a new party that was aganst slavery becaus ethey were going to make territorys |
| john c freemont | young and handsome |
| james buturman | a ministor for great britin |
| dred scott vrs sandford | a case that reached the supreme cort in 1856 |
| rogger b tanny | he made an opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), that ruled, among other things, that African Americans, having been considered inferior |
| abraham lincon | Lincoln led the United States through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crises the American Civil War preserving the Union, abolishing slavery |
| harpers ferry | was atakked by john brown in 1859 |
| platform | statment of belife |
| seceded | to withdraw |
| confederate states | were the states that withdrew from the union |
| jeferson baus | president of the confedericy |
| citterden plan | was presented to congress in 1861 but did not pass |