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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Conscience Whigs | Northern Whigs who opposed slavery. |
| California Gold rush | thousands of people came to California in 1849 after gold had been discovered there. |
| Gadsden Purchase | original purpose was to create a route for a railroad. |
| Why Northerners headed for Kansas after Kansas-Nebraska Act | to create an antislavery majority there. |
| Wilmot Proviso | never passed but would have prohibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico. |
| Harriet Tubman | a famous conductor on the underground railroad. |
| Charles Sumner | his caning resulted from accusing other senators of forcing Kansas into the ranks of slavery. |
| Why the Whig Party and the American Party both dissolved | Northern and Southern members split over the issue of slavery. |
| Dred Scott Case | considered free soil unconstitutional. |
| John Brown's raid | his intention was to arm enslaved people and begin an insurrection against slaveholders. |
| Know states that seceded from the union | South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | depicted African Americans as real people imprisoned in dreadful circumstances. |
| Fugitive slave act | required ordinary citizens to help capture runaways. |
| Abraham Lincoln and the election of 1860 | won the election without southern support. |
| Popular Sovereignty | the idea that citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide for themselves if they wanted to permit slavery or not. |
| Cotton Whigs | Northern Whigs who had ties to Northern cloth manufactures and voted with Southern Whigs to nominate Zachary Taylor for president. |
| Henry Clay | nicknamed the "Great Compromiser" because of his role in promoting the Missouri Compromise in 1820 and solving the nullification crisis in 1833. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
| Levi Coffin | a Quaker who allowed escape African Americans to stay at his home in Indiana, where the Underground Railroad routes converged. |
| Republican party information | anger over the Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in this new coalition. |
| Know-Nothing (American) Party | an anti-Catholic and nativist party. |
| House Divided speech | Abraham Lincoln said "a house divided against itself cannot stand." |
| South Carolina and Secession | 1st state to secede from the union. |
| Jefferson Davis | chosen as president of the confederacy. |
| Southern way of thinking about Compromise of 1850 | if California entered the union as a free state, then slaveholding states would become a minority in the Senate, resulting in the South losing power in national politics. |
| John C. Calhoun | supported slavery. |
| Roger B. Taney | supported slavery. |
| Preston brooks | supported slavery. |
| Republicans | nominated Abraham Lincoln. |
| Southern democrats | supported the Dred Scott Decision. |
| Northern Democrats | supported popular sovereignty. |
| Constitutional Unionists | nominated John Bell; wanted to uphold both the Constitution and the Union. |
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