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Question | Answer |
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network of abolitionists that helped slaves escape. choo choo | underground railroad |
spoke out against slavery in a speech called "the crime against kansas". afterwards was beaten with a cane | charles sumner |
ran for president under the whig party in 1848. TIPACANOE and tyler two | zachary taylor |
the vice president for zachary taylor. tipacanoe and TYLER TWO | john tyler |
"the great compromiser and pacifier" | henry clay |
under zachary taylors presidency 5 things were promised in 1850. Clay, Calhoun, and Webster contributed | compromise of 1850 |
whatever has the highest vote wins. the people of the territory can vote but people out of the state would vote | popular sovereignty |
contributed to the dred scott decision | stephen douglass |
nebraska and kansas dont want slavery, so they decide their fates by popular sovereignty | kansas/nebraska act |
"the sword" killed slave owners with an axe to try to abolish slavery. he also said he was a prophet of God. he led 19 men into harpers ferry | john brown |
wrote an anti-slavery newspaper called "the liberator" | william lloyd garrison |
the writer of uncle toms cabin | harriet beecher stowe |
a book about the horrors of slavery which sold in the millions | uncle toms cabin |
the law that states that any black (free or slave) didnt have rights | fugitive slave law |
laws in the north that were non-kidnapping laws that protected free blacks from being kidnapped and brought into slavery by the south | liberty laws |
the democratic president before lincoln. did nothing about the succeeding states | james buchanan |
wrote the dred scott decision | roger taney |
officer in the civil war in the confederate army. also arrested john brown at harpers ferry | robert e. lee |
john brown led 19 men here to seize a federal armory. the first man killed was a slave. | harpers ferry |
union party candidate for the 1860 election | john bell |
secretary of state under james buchanan | lewis cass |
colonization or abolition | anti-slavery society |
said that the rights of the south needed to be protected and helped with the compromise of 1850 | john calhoun |
helped create the compromise of 1850 | daniel webster |
preached at brooklyn church with over 2000 congregants about the issues of slavery | william ward beecher |
anything above this line was free and anything below was slave | 3630 |
missouri wanted to become a free state but couldnt so it was compromised that maine would be free and missouri would be slave | missouri compromise |