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Vocabulary 15
Term | Definition |
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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 1840s, was opposed to the expansion of slavery, led to the creation off the 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 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 in the Mexican cession |
Fugitive Slave Act | Citizens were now required to turn in all suspected runaway slave, more northerners became abolitionists |
Uncle Toms Cabin | Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, it was fictional story of a slave life, convinced many in the north of the evils of slavery |
Kansas-Nebraska Act | Allowed each territory's populations to vote on whether to enter the u.s. as either a free or slave state |
John Brown | radical abolitionist, 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 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 north,created in the 1850s |
Dred Scott v. Sanford | Supreme court case in which scott,a slave, sued for his freedom based on the fact he had lived in a territory that prohibted slavery, (1) the supreme court ruled that scott had no right to sue because he was a slave. (2) Congress did not have the right to |
Abraham Lincoln | 16th president, member of the republican party, his election spurred southern stated 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 1850s, popular in the south |
Secession | to withdraw from a nation |
Confederate States of America | A union of the states that secede from the U.S. 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 civil war |