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Unit 11 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Henry Clay | coauthor of the compromise of 1850 |
Stephen Douglas | co-author of the compromise of 1850; propesed the kansas-nebraska act |
Stephen Douglas | belived in popular soverignty; ran against Lincoln for senate in 1858; lost presidential election on 1860 |
John C. Calhoun | opposed to the compromise of 1850; predicted disunion |
compromise of 1850 | worked out when california applied for statehood |
compromise of 1850 | outlawed the lave trade in washington DC |
compromise of 1850 | split mexican cession into Utah and New Mexico; popular soverignty would settle the question of slavery |
wilmont proviso | proposal to ban slavery in the mexican cession |
fugitive slave act | federal law that required northerners to assist in capturing runaway slaves |
uncle toms cabin | fictional work used to portray the evils of slavery |
harriet beecher stowe | author of uncle tom's cabin |
james buchanan | democrat that won the presidentioal election in 1856 |
dred scott v. sandford | supreme course case that ruled slaves were property, not citizens and that the missouri compromise and popular sovereignnty were unconstitutional |
dred scott v sandford | case involving a slave that sued for his freedom; ruled that slavery could spresd anywhere in the US |
Republican party | political party that formed to stop the spread of slavery; made up of abolitionist; free soilers and northern whigs |
Free soil Party | formed as a result of the wilmont proviso; first party that opposed the spread of slavery |
Kansas-Nebraska act | law that repealed the missouri compromise; decided that popular soverignty would settle status of slavery in louisiana |
john brown | abolitionist that had pro-slavery people massacred kansas; planned a slave rebellion in the south |
bleeding kansas | reference to the mini-civil war that broke out as a result of the kansas-nebraska act |
charles sumner | northern senator that condemned the violence in kansas and was beat with a cane |
preston brookks | southern congressman that caned charles sumner for his remarks over bleeding kansas |
john c. fremont | republican presidential candidate in 1856 |
abraham lincoln | republican from illinois that opposed the expasnsion of slavery; elected president in 1860 |
a house divided | lincoln's famous speach about the union falling apart over the issue of slavery; given during the lincol douglas debates |
Lincoln-Douglas debates | seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas as they ran for senate in 1858; made lincoln famous in the republican party |
Roger Taney | cheif justice of the supreme court in Dred Sccottv. Sandford |
Election of 1860 | presidental election in which four candidates ran for president; main issue was over the spread of slavery; republican Abraham Lincoln won and led to southern secession |
Harpers Ferry | US army arsenal in Virgina that John Brown Raided |
Popular soverignty | the idea that the people of a territory would vote on the issue of slavery |
Pottawatomie creek massacre | when john brown hacked five pro-slavery people to death in bleeding kansas |