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Ch. 12 Vocab
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lands taken by the United States in the U.S.-Mexico War (1846–1848). | Mexican cession |
| The 1846 proposal by Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania to ban slavery in territory acquired from the U.S.-Mexico War. | Wilmot Privoso |
| The political argument, made by abolitionists, free soilers, and Republicans in the pre–Civil War years, that southern slaveholders were using their unfair representative advantage under the three-fifths compromise of the Constitution | (next card) |
| , as well as their clout within the Democratic Party, to demand extreme federal proslavery policies (such as annexation of Cuba) that the majority of American voters would not support. | "slave power" conspiracy |
| A political movement that opposed the expansion of slavery. In 1848, the free soilers organized the Free Soil Party, which depicted | (next card) |
| slavery as a threat to republicanism and to the Jeffersonian ideal of a freeholder society, arguments that won broad support among aspiring white farmers. | free soil movement |
| A discriminatory tax, adopted in 1850 in California Territory, that forced Chinese and Latin American immigrant miners to pay high taxes for the right to prospect for gold. The tax effectively drove these miners from the goldfields. | Foreign Miner's Tax |
| The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate. Also a plan, first promoted by Democratic candidate Senator Lewis Cass as “squatter sovereignty,” | (next card) |
| then revised as “popular sovereignty” by fellow Democratic presidential aspirant Stephen Douglas, under which Congress would allow settlers in each territory to determine its status as free or slave. | popular sovereignty |
| Laws passed in 1850 that were meant to resolve the dispute over the status of slavery in the territories. Key elements included the admission of California as a free state and a new Fugitive Slave Act. | compromise of 1850 |
| A federal law that set up special federal courts to facilitate capture of anyone accused of being a runaway slave. These courts could consider a slaveowner’s sworn affidavit as proof, | (next card) |
| but defendants could not testify or receive a jury trial. The controversial law led to armed conflict between U.S. marshals and abolitionists. | Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 |
| Laws enacted in many northern states that guaranteed to all residents, including alleged fugitives, the right to a jury trial. | personal liberty laws |
| An 1854 treaty in which, after a show of military force by U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry, leaders of Japan agreed to permit American ships to refuel at two Japanese ports. | Treaty of Kanagawa |
| Private paramilitary campaigns, mounted particularly by southern proslavery advocates in the 1850s, to seize additional territory in the Caribbean or | (next card) |
| Latin America in order to establish control by U.S.-born leaders, with an expectation of eventual annexation by the United States. | filibustering |
| An 1854 manifesto that urged President Franklin Pierce to seize the slave-owning province of Cuba from Spain. Northern Democrats denounced this aggressive initiative, and the plan was scuttled. | Ostend Manifesto |
| A pattern by which immigrants find housing and work and learn to navigate a new environment, and then assist other immigrants from their family or home area to settle in the same location | chain migration |
| Opposition to immigration and to full citizenship for recent immigrants or to immigrants of a particular ethnic or national background, as expressed, for example, | (next card) |
| by anti-Irish discrimination in the 1850s and Asian exclusion laws between the 1880s and 1940s. | nativism |
| An anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic political party formed in 1851 that arose in response to mass immigration in the 1840s, especially from Ireland and Germany. In 1854, the party gained control of the state governments of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. | American, or Know-Nothing, Party |
| A controversial 1854 law that divided Indian Territory into Kansas and Nebraska, repealed the Missouri Compromise, and left the new territories to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. | (next card) |
| Far from clarifying the status of slavery in the territories, the act led to violent conflict in “Bleeding Kansas.” | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| The 1857 Supreme Court decision that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. The Court ruled against slave Dred Scott, who claimed that travels with his master into free states and territories made him and his family free. | (next card) |
| The decision also denied the federal government the right to exclude slavery from the territories and declared that African Americans were not citizens. | Dred Scott decision |
| In his place, Democrats nominated, an avid expansionist who had advocated buying Cuba, annexing Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, and taking all of Oregon. To maintain party unity, promoted a new idea — squatter sovereignty. | (next card) |
| Under this plan, Congress would allow settlers in each territory to determine its status as free or slave. Failed to persuade those northern Democrats who opposed any expansion of slavery. | Senator Lewis Cass |
| Democratic senator now championed this approach, renaming squatter sovereignty to popular sovereignty to link it to republican ideology, which placed ultimate power in the hands of voters. idea had considerable appeal. | Stephen Douglas of Illinois |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin conveyed the moral principles of abolitionism by depicting bad personal situations: the whippings and sexual abuse, separation of enslaved people the sin and guilt of white Christian men and women who could not escape the slave system. | Harriet Beecher Stowe’s |
| led a unanimous Supreme Court in affirming the supremacy of federal courts — a position that has withstood the test of time — and upholding the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act. | Chief Justice Roger B. Taney |
| a Tennessee-born adventurer who had failed as a California forty-niner, who revenged for land in Cali | William Walker |
| An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves, was hung in Harpers Ferry after capturing an Armory. | John Brown |
| 16 president of the United States, he promoted equal rights for African Americans in the famed Lincoln- Douglas debates, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation and set in motion the Civil War, but he was determined to preserve the Union, was assassinated | Abraham Lincoln |
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