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Vocab Cards
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sectionalism | division of a nation by regions, each region is more concerned with the issue of its region than the whole nation. |
| Free Soil Party | formed in the 1840's, was opposed to the expansion of slavery, led to the creation of the Republican Party. |
| Henry Clay | created the Compromise of 1850, know as the "Great Compromiser." |
| Stephen A. Doulgas | 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 slave law, (4) slavery would not be limited int the Mexican Cession. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | citizens were now required to turn in all suspected runaway slaves, more Northerners became abolitionists. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, it was a fictional story of slave life, convinced many in the North of evil of slavery. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | allowed each territory's population to vote on whether on whether to enter the U.S. as either a free state or slave state (example of popular sovereignty.) |
| John Brown | radical abolitionists, led raids on pro-slavery towns in Kansas and the raid on Harper's Ferry. |
| Bleeding Kansas | period before the vote on slavery in Kansas, characterized by violence by both pro-slavery and anti-slavery. |
| Raid on Harper's Ferry | led by Brown, attempt to capture weapons in a federal arsenal (weapons storage) in order to supply guns to uprising slave, Brown and followers were captured and executed. |
| Republican Party | formed form 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 Lincoln | 16th President, member of the Republican Party, his election spurred southern states to secede. |
| Lincoln-Douglas Bebates | 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 choose to not secede during the Civil War. |