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Jude 8th -Chapter 14
Chapter 14: A Dividing Nation
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Henry Clay | proposed the Missouri Compromise |
| Missouri Compromise | Missouri was allowed to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine was allowed to enter as a free state |
| 36'30 Line | North of this line, slavery was banned forever |
| Gag Rule | Congress voted in 1836 to table all antislavery petitions; called the “gag rule” because it silenced all congressional debate over slavery |
| Fugitive Slave Act | A person arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal/Constitutional rights and a person who helped a slave escape or even refused to aid slave catchers could be jailed |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | a novel about the horrors of slavery. It fueled the antislavery movement in the North and spread awareness throughout the country |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | an act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories |
| Border ruffians | pro-slavery settlers |
| Free soilers | anti-slavery settlers |
| Dred Scott Decision | the court held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas while fighting for the Illinois Senate seat that all focused on the issue of slavery in the United States |
| Abraham Lincoln | Presidential Election of 1860 winner |
| South Carolina | first state to secede from the Union |
| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 | established a process of admitting new states into the Union and it also banned slavery north of the Ohio River |
| Ohio River | natural border used by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to separate free/slave states and territories |
| Louisiana Territory | acquired land by the United States that was not yet formally settled; northerners were worried about this land potentially being influenced by slavery |
| fugitive | a person who flees or tries to escape (from slavery) |
| Whig Party | political party that fell apart after the passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act over moral issues regarding slavery |
| Compromise of 1850 | agreements that admitted California into the Union as a free state, allowed New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C., and creating a stronger fugitive slave law |
| popular sovereignty | rule by the people; letting people choose what/how they want to rule themselves |
| Illinois Senate seat | FIRST political position that both Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln campaign for |
| Presidential Election of 1860 candidates | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckenridge, and John Bell were all candidates for this election |
| Republican Party | Abraham Lincoln's political party |
| Lincoln's views on slavery | believed that the country could not endure being divided like that (no slavery at all) |
| Douglas' view on slavery | believed that the country could remain half slave & half free |
| Fort Sumter, South Carolina | confederates open fire on a federal fort |
| Confederate States of America | South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee |
| John Brown's Raid | effort by abolitionist to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia |
| Tallmadge Amendment | the bill proposed to make Missouri a state, but only as a free state |
| Wilmot Proviso | a proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War |
| winner of the Presidential Election of 1860 | Abraham Lincoln |
| Union | the United States as one nation united under a single government |
| Missouri | only state that was the exception to the 36'30 line |
| Bleeding Kansas | period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory; events include the attacks in Lawrence, Kansas … John Brown’s violent attack, violence in Congress with the beating of a Congressman with a cane |
| December 20, 1860 | South Carolina votes in favor of seceding from the Union on the same day President-Elect Lincoln says he would not support slavery extending into the territories |
| April 12, 1861 | Confederates in Charleston, South Carolina open fire on Fort Sumter (federal fort) |
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