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Chapter 14
The American Promise 5th Edition. Professor: Jones-Reed : Keywords
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| John C. Fremont | Solider and California Adventurer |
| Wilmot Proviso | Proposal by an antislavery Pennsylvania Democrat |
| Robert B. Taney | Chief justice who hated republicans and racial equality |
| John Brown | Free-soil settler |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | Legendary meetings dealing with slavery |
| Compromise of 1850 | Temporary peace between sections divided on the question of slavery |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | White northerner who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852 |
| Gadsden Purchase | 30,000 square miles of territory acquisition from Mexico |
| Stephen A. Douglas | Democratic senator from Illinois |
| Zachery Taylor | General in the Mexican American War, Southern slaveholder |
| Know Nothings | Nativist political Party, Known as the American Party |
| Fugitive Slave Act | To seize an alleged slave |
| Secessionists | Southern politicians wanting to leave the union after Lincoln’s election in 1860 |
| Charles Sumner | Massachusetts Senator who criticized proslavery violence in Kansas |