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Chap10 Cultures
Pre Civil War chapter
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Popular Sovereignty | People of territories decide slave or free question |
| Nativism | movement attacking the rights of immigrants |
| Secessionist | In favor of leaving the union |
| Annex | join or attack |
| Free soilers | Political Party wanted no slavery in new territories |
| Plantation | large scale farms of south requiring slave labor |
| Immigration | movement of people from one country to another to live |
| Emigration | movement within a country ie east to west |
| Underground railroad | network of safe homes for escaping slaves |
| Tariff | Tax on imported goods |
| Manifest destiny | believe in undeniable fate that US would exist from Atlantic to Pacific |
| John C Calhoun | South Carolina politician called for secession |
| Henry Clay | Great Compromiser responsible for Missouri and Great Compromises |
| Stephen Douglass | Illinois Senator Kansas Nebraska Act |
| John C Fremont | Hero of California in Mexican War |
| Zachary Taylor | Old Rough and Ready Whig Pres died in office |
| Winfield Scot | Old Fuss and Feathers ran for Pres |
| Roger Taney | Supreme Court justice |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Toms Cabin |
| Simon Legree | villian of Uncle Toms Cabin |
| Millard Fillmore | Pres(finished Taylors term) ran against Buchanan |
| Santa Anna | Dictator of Mexico |
| John Slidell | Sent to Mexico to try and buy California and New Mexico |
| Dred Scot | slave who sued for his freedom -case found Missouri Compromise unconstitutional |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th Pres Elected 1860 |
| John Breckenridge | VP under Buchanan Ran for Pres in 1860 as Democrat |
| John Bell | Constitutional Union party candidate in 1860 |
| James Buchanan | 15th President from PA Minister to Great Britian |
| John Brown | Bleeding Kansas/ Attack on Harper's Ferry |
| Robert E Lee | US Army Commander at Harper';s Ferry |
| Robert Anderson | Union Commander at Fort Sumter |
| Missouri Comprmise | Kept Balance of slave/free states Maine as free/ Missouri as slave |
| Compromise of 1850 | Henry CLay tried for middle ground of the slave issue |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | 2 new territories where popular sovereignty would exist |
| Fugitive Slave law | law favoring slave owners runaways must be returned by all citizens |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Treaty to end the US Mexico war -US got California, new Mexico |
| Gadsden Purchase | land purchase from Mexico needed for Transcontinental Railroad |
| Wilmot Proviso | tried to ban slavery in lands gotten from Mexico War |
| Whigs | Party of Tyler and Taylor died out in 1850's |
| Democrats | Party split in to Northern and Southern factions in election 1860 |
| Know Nothings | American Party- Pro American/ anti Immigrant |
| Republicans | New Party-Lincolns Party--know now as GOP |
| Constitutional Union Party | tried to keep the Union together -Border states- ran John Bell |
| South Carolina | first state to secede |
| Deep South | Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate states of America |
| Fort Sumter | first action of Civil War-fired on by the Confederates |
| Fort Pickens | Onlysouthern Union Fort to stay under union control in Civil War |
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