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Chapter 15
Social Studies Test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Wilmot Proviso | an 1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from War with Mexico |
| Free Soil Party | a political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery |
| Henry Clay | senator of Kentucky that helped in the making of the Missouri Compromise |
| Daniel Webster | senator from Massachusetts which supported the compromise for the sake of the union |
| Stephen A. Douglas | senator of Illinois that made the best form of the compromise, forming the Compromise of 1850 |
| Compromise of 1850 | a series of Congressional laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | did not like how the Compromise of 1850 would help slaveholders recapture their runaway slaves |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral |
| Fugitive Slave Act | an 1850 law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves |
| Popular Sovereignty | a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | an 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right whether to allow slavery |
| John Brown | an extreme abolitionist who went to the cabins of several pro slavery neighbors and murdered five people, this attack is known as the Pottawatomie Massacre |
| Republican Party | the political party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories |
| John C. Fremont | the republicans nominated him to run for president as a republican, a national hero for his explorations in the West, earned the nickname of “Pathfinder.” |
| James Buchanan | the democrats nominated him to run for president as a democrat, was a minister of Great Britain, had been known in England since 1853 and hadn’t spoken with or against the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | an 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to live in the territories where slavery was illegal; the Court ruled against Scott |
| Roger B. Taney | chief justice in Scott’s case, said that Dred Scott was not a U.S. citizen, as a result, could not sue in U.S. courts; said that Scott was bound by Missouri’s slave code; as a result Scott’s free time in territory did not matter in his case |
| Abraham Lincoln | a republican nominated 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 withdraw |
| Confederate States of America | the confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern States after their secession from the Union |
| Jefferson Davis | named president of the Confederacy |
| Crittenden Plan | a compromise introduced in 1861 that might have prevented secession |
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