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History
Chp. 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wilmot Proviso | President Polk sent a bill to Congress for funds to negotiate with Mexico while fighting was going on; David Wilmot attached an amendment to the bill called the Wilmot Proviso, whcih proposed that the US prohibit slavery in any place from Mexico |
| California Gold Rush | John Sutter arrived in CA while the region was still under Mexican control and discovered gold. First wave of gold hunters came in 1849 *forty-niners |
| Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay offered a compromise that would allow CA to be admitted as a free state, abolish the slave trade-but not slavery-in the District of Columbia and a bunch of other stuff |
| Know nothings | when members were asked about the nature of their secret order, they were taught to reply that they knew nothing about it |
| Pottawatomie Massacre | John Brown's men butchered 5 proslavery settlers with swords, Brown wanted to kill all proslavery settlers |
| Secede | to leave the Union |
| Calhoun Resolution | Calhoun set down the Southern view of the status of slavery in the territories, saying territories are the common possesion of the states not the fed gov't |
| Forty-niners | most followed the over-land route to CA, some 80,000 men came to CA in search for gold |
| Fugitive Slave Law | stated the return of runaway slaves to bondage and became a powerful emotional tool for the abolitionists |
| John Brown | financial abolitionist from Connecticut who had come to Kansas to help win the territory for the antislavery forces |
| Dred Scott v Sanfrod | Scott was a slave owned by a dr and the dr. moved to a free state then died then his bro took him as a slave, which kept Dred captive |
| Jefferson Davis | former Senator from Miss. and Sec. of War under Franklin Pierce who was eleected the Confederate States of America's first president |
| Free-soilers | those who favored leaving slavery alone in the South where it already existed but opposed its extension into the territories |
| Free-eaters | extremists who advocated the South's leaving the Union as the only way to preserve the Southern way of life |
| Underground Railorad | the escape route for fugitive slaves through the Northern states |
| Roger Taney | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, examined the Missouri Compromise, and decided that Congress couldn't forbid slavery |
| Harpers Ferry | Brown and his followers moved secretly to a farmhouse near Harpers Ferry |
| Fort Sumter | Lincoln, Beauregard, Lincoln chose to fight rather than constitutional arguments, beginning of the Civil War |
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