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Unit 11 Vocab
Causes of the Civil War
Term | Definition |
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Henry Clay | co-author of the Compromise of 1850 |
Stephen Douglass | co-author of the compromise of 1850; proposed the Kansas-Nebraska act |
Stephen Douglass (#2) | believed in popular sovereignty; ran against Lincoln for senate in 1858; lost presidential election in 1860 |
John C. Calhoun | opposed to the Compromise of 1850 and predicted disunion |
Compromise of 1850 | worked out when California applied for statehood |
Compromise of 1850 (#2) | outlawed the slave trade in Washington DC |
Compromise of 1850 (#3) | split the Mexican Cession into Utah and New Mexico; popular sovereignty would settle the question of slavery |
Wilmot Proviso | proposal to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession |
Fugitive Slave Act | federal law that required northerners to assist in capturing run away aslaves |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | fictional work used to portray the evils of slavery |
Harriet Beecher Stove | author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
James Buchanan | democrat that won the presidential election in 1856 |
Dred Scott Decision | case involving a slave 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, not citizens and that the Missouri Compromise and popular sovereignty were unconstitutional |
Republican Party | political party that formed to stop the spread of slavery; made up of abolitionists, free soilers and northern whigs |
Free Soil Party | formed as a result of the Wilmot Proviso; First party that opposed the spread of slavery |
Kansas-Nebraska Act | law that repealed the Missouri compromise; decided that popular sovereignty would settle the status of slavery in Louisiana Territory |
John Brown | abolitionist that had pro-slavery people massacred in 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 Brooks | southern congressman that caned Charles Sumner for his remarks over Bleeding Kansas |
John C. Freemont | 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 speech about Union falling apart over the issue of slavery; given during the Lincoln-Douglass debates |
Lincoln-Douglass Debate | seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass 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 v. Sandford |
Election of 1860 | presidential election in which four candidates ran for president; main issue was over the spread of slavery; Republican Lincoln won and led to southern secession |
Harpers Ferry | US army arsenal in Virginia that John Brown raided |
Popular Sovereignty | 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 |