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Causes of Civil War

Unit 11

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Henry Clay Co author of the Compromise of 1850
Stephen Douglas Believed in popular sovereignty; ran against Lincoln for Senate in 1858; lost presidential election in 1860
John C Calhoun Opposed the Compromise of 1850; predicted disunion
Compromise of 1850 Worked out California when they applied for statehood, outlawed the slave trade in DC, and split Mexican Cession into Utah and New Mexico
Wilmot Proviso Proposal to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession
Fugitive Slave Act Federal law that required northerners to assist in capturing runaway slaves
Uncle Tom's Cabin Fictional work used to portray the evils of slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
James Buchanan Democrat won the presidential election in 1856
Dred Scott Decision Case involving a slave that sued for his freedom; ruled that slavery could spread anywhere in the US
Dred Scott vs Sandford Supreme Court case that ruled slaves were property and not citizens
Republican Party Political party that formed to stop the spread of slavery
Free Soil Party
Kansas Nebraska Act
John Brown
Bleeding Kansas
Charles Sumner
Preston Brooks
John C Fremont Republican presidential candidate in 1856
Abraham Lincoln Republican from Illinois that opposed the expansion of slavery; elected president in 1860
A House Divided Lincoln's famous speak about the Union falling apart over the issue of slavery
Lincoln Douglas Debates 7 debates between Lincoln and Stephen Douglas as they ran for Senate in 1858; made Lincoln famous in the Republican Party
Roger Taney Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Dred Scott vs Sandford
Election of 1860 Presidential election in which 4 candidates ran for president
Harpers Ferry US army arsenal in Virginia that John Brown raided
Popular Sovereignty The idea that the people of a territory would vote on the issue of slavery
Pottawatomie Creek Massacre When John Brown hacked 5 pro slavery people to death in Bleeding Kansas
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