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Vocabulary 15
Antebellum United States (Pre-Civil War)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sectionalism | Division of a nation by regions,each region is more concerned with the issues of its region than the whole nation |
| Free Soil Party | formed in the 1840's, was opposed to the expansion of slavery, led to creation of Republican Party |
| Henry Clay | Created the Compromise of 1850, known as the "Great Compromiser" |
| Stephen A. Douglas | Democratic senator from Illinois, ran against Lincoln for the Senate in 1858, creator of the Kansas-Nebraska act, ran against Lincoln for President in 1860 |
| Compromise of 1850 | Created when California wanted to become a free state. 1. California a free state 2. Slave trade abolished in Washington, D. C. 3. Stronger fugitive state law 4. slavery would not be limited in the Mexican Cession |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Citizens were now required to turn in all suspected runaway slaves, more Northerners became abolitions |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, it was a fictional story of slave life, convinced many in the North of the evils of slavery |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Allowed each territory's population to vote on whether to enter the U. S. as either a free or slave state |
| John Brown | Radical abolitionists, led raid on pro-slavery town in Kansas and the raid on Harper's Ferry |
| Bleeding Kansas | Period before the vote in Kansas, characterized by violence by pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups |
| Raid on Harper's Ferry | Led by John Brown, attempt to capture weapons in a federal arsenal in order to supply guns to uprising slaves, Brown and followers were captured and executed |
| Republican Party | Formed from other anti-slavery parties, platform (basic beliefs) was based on limiting the spread of slavery into new territories, popular in the North, created in the 1850's |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | Supreme Court case in which Scott, a slave, sued for his freedom based on the fact he had lived in a territory that prohibited slavery |
| Abraham Licoln | 16th President of the United States, member of the Republican Party, his election spurred southern states to secede |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | For 1858 Illinois Senate race, defined the arguments on both sides of the slavery issue |
| Democratic Party | Supported the spread of slavery in the 1850's, popular in the South |
| Secession | To withdraw from a nation |
| Confederate States of America | A union of the states that secede from the United States prior to the Civil War |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Border States | Missouri, Delaware, Kentucky, and Maryland, these states had slavery but chose to not secede during the Civil War |
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