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U. S. History
Chapter 10 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wilmot Proviso | a bill proposed after the Mexican War |
| Free-Soil Party | antislavery party founded to keep slavery out of the western territories |
| Popular sovereignty | a policy stating that voters in a territory |
| Secede | break away from the union |
| Compromise of 1850 | a series of measures to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican War |
| Fugitive Slave act | a part of the compromise of 1850 that Gave a new-and controversial- protection to slavery |
| Personal liberty laws | pre-Civil War laws passed by Northern state governments to counteract the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Acts |
| Underground Railroad | an escape routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North |
| Harriet Tubman | became the most renowned conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading more than 300 slaves to freedom |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | the act granting statehood to Nebraska and Kansas, also giving those residing in those territories the right to choose to be a free or slave state |
| John Brown | an abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves who was hanged |
| "Bleeding Kanas" | sequence of violent events between proslavery and antislavery supporters in Kanas |
| Know-Nothings | political party of the mid-1800s that opposed immigration |
| Republican Party | political party established around an antislavery platform in 1854 |
| Dred Scott | slave who sued for freedom after living in free states and a free territory |
| Roger B. Taney | Chief Justice who delivered the Supreme Court decision on Dred Scott decision |
| Abraham Lincoln | republican president whose election in 1860 caused South Carolina to secede |
| Stephen A. Douglas | Illinois Democrat who believed in popular sovereignty and steered the compromise of 1850 through the Senate |
| Harpers Ferry | town in Virginia where abolitionist John Brown raised a federal Arsenal in 1859 |
| Jefferson Davis | Mississippi senator who became president of the confederacy |
| John C. Breckinridge | southern democrat that was committed to the expansion and protection of slavery |
| Confederate States of America | government of 11 southern states that seceded from the United States and fought against the union in the civil war |
| Crittenden Compromise | 1861 proposed constitutional amendment that attempted to prevent secession of the southern states by allowing slavery in the Mississippi compromise line |
| Fort Sumter | federal fort located in Charleston, South Carolina, where the first shots of the civil war were fired |
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