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Causes of Civil War
Term | Definition |
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Henry Clay | Co-Author of the Compromise of 1850 |
Stephen Doulgas | Co-Author of the Compromise of 1850; Proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
Stephen Douglas | Believed in popular sovereignty; Ran against Lincoln for Senate in 1858; Lost presidential election in 1860 |
Compromise of 1850 | Worked out when California applied for statehood |
Compromise of 1850 | Outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C. |
Compromise of 1850 | 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 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 that won the presidential election in 1856 |
Dred Scott Decision | Case involving the a slave that sued for his freedom; Ruled that slavery could spread anywhere in the US |
Dred Scott v. 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Kansas-Nebraska Act | Law that repealed the Missouri Compromise; Decided that popular sovereignty would settle status of slavery in Louisiana |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 | Northerner 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. 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; Given during the Lincoln 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 | 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 Abraham Lincoln won and led the southern secession |
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 five pro-slavery people to death in Bleeding Kansas |
John C. Calhoun | Opposed to the Compromise of 1850; Predicted disunion |