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History chapter 15
lesson 2
Term | Definition |
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Franklin Pierce | politician from new Hampshire, honors comp. of 1850 & fugitive slave act |
Other canadites | William garrison, Zachary taylor |
Steven Douglas | supported the idea of building a railroad to the pasiffic ocean |
Kansas-Nebraska act | plan that would divide the remainder of the Louisiana purshce into two territory and allowed the people in each territory to decide on the question of slavery |
1856 Congressional Committee | decided which govt was legitimate. anti-s said it was unfair, federal govt didn't agree |
May 1856 | pro-s charged leaders of anti-s with treason but anti-s men flead |
Sack of Lawrence | the attack of pro-slavery men SOL |
John Brown | mad by SOL so he got some men and committed the Pottawatomie massacre and said god told him to |
Pottawatomie Massacre | Brown and men killed five pro-s men in kansas |
Charles Sumner | critized pro-s people in KS, personally insulted Andrew Pickens Butler- pro-s senator |
Preston Brooks | relative of Butler, took a cane and beat Sumner unconscious S sent more canes/ N outraged |