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Unit 11 vocab
The Causes of the Civil War
Term | Definition |
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henry clay | co-auther of the compromise of 1850 |
stephen douglas | co-author of compromise of 1850; proposed the kansas-nebraska act |
stephen douglas | believed in the popular sovereignty; ran against lincoln for senate 1858; lost the presidential election in 1860 |
john c. calhoun | opposed to the compromise of 1850; predicted disunion |
compromise of 1850 | worked out when cali applied for statehood; outlawed the slave trade in washington dc;split 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 toms cabin | fictional work used to portray the evils of slavery |
harriet beecher stowe | author of uncle toms cabin |
james buchanan | democrat that 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 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kansas-nebraska act | law that repealed the missouri compromise; decided that popular sovereignty would settle status of slavery in Louisiana.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 |
charles sumner | northern senator that condemned the violence in kansas and was beat with a cane |
preston brooks | southern congress man that canned charles sumner for his remarks over bleeding kansas |
john c. fremont | republican presidential candidate in 1856 |
abraham lincoln | republican from illionois that opposed the expansion of slavery; elected president in1860 |
a house divided | lincoln's famous speech about the union falling apart over the issue of slavery; elected president in 1860 |
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 for supreme court in dred scott v. sandford |
election of 1860 | presidential election in which four candidates ran for president; main issue was dispute over the spread of slavery; republican abraham lincoln won and led to southern secession |
harpers ferry | us army arsenal in virginia that john brown raided |
popular sovereignty | the idea that 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 the bleeding kansas |