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APUSH Unit 5
VOCAB
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Freeport Doctrine | the belief that slavery could not exist if local legislation did not accept it |
| American Party | northern political party comprised of nativists who hated Irish Catholic and German Catholic immigrants |
| Stephen Douglas | Democratic senator from Illinois who believed in popular sovereignty |
| Republican Party | political party that formed as a direct result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act; compromised of groups who opposed slavery |
| free labor ideology | idea promoted by early Republican Party that said slavery economically inefficient |
| sectionalism | refers to the growing division between the North and the South from the founding of the nation until the Civil War |
| Whig Party | political party that died out in the 1850s because it never took a clear stance on slavery |
| Free Soil Movement | compromised of Northern Whigs who did not want to end slavery |
| Free Soil Party | political party comprised of "conscience Whigs" and anti-slavery Democrats who wanted no expansion of slavery in territories |
| Popular Sovereignty | the idea that people who settled a territory should decide the issue of slavery for that territory by voting |
| John Brown | radical abolitionist whose raid on Harper's Ferry resulted in his execution |
| Compromise of 1850 | this was meant to resolve the dispute over the admission of California and New Mexico as free states |
| Harper's Ferry | federal arsenal in Virginia raided by John Brown in his attempt to start a massive slave revolt in 1859 |
| Fugitive Slave Law | said the federal government would be responsible for hunting down runaway slaves; captured persons were denied trial by jury |
| Trent Affair | diplomatic row that threatened to bring the British into the Civil War on the side of the confederacy, after a Union warship stopped a British steamer and arrested two Confederate diplomats on board |
| Redeemers | southern Democratic politicians who sought to wrest control from Republican regimes in the South after Reconstruction |
| Bleeding Kansas | Civil war in Kansas over the issue of slavery in the territory, fought intermittently until 1861, when it merged with the wider national Civil War |
| Hinton Helper | Wrote The Impending Crisis, a book about slavery. He said the non-slave holding whites were the ones who suffered the most from slavery. He was captured and killed by Southerners |
| 14th Amendment | gave citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves |
| Personal Liberty Laws | Laws passed by Northern states forbidding the imprisonment of escaped slaves |
| Carpet Baggers | Northerners such as teachers and ministers who traveled South after the war to aid freedmen |
| Ku Klux Klan | main group that terrorized and intimidated blacks and white Republicans; implemented the Mississippi Plan |
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