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Unit 11 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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| Kansas-Nebraska act | law that repealed the missouri compromise; decided that popular soverignty would settle status of slavery in louisiana |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 |