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Unit 10B Colonies Vo
Unit 10B Colonies Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Henry Clay | co-author of the Compromise of 1850 |
Stephen Douglas I | co-author of the Compromise of 1850; proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
Stephen Douglas II | believed in popular sovereignty; ran against Lincoln for Senate in 1858; lost presidential election in 1860 |
John C. Calhoun | opposed the Compromise of 1850; predicted disunion |
Compromise of 1850 I | worked out when California applied for statehood |
Compromise of 1850 II | outlawed the slave trade in Washington D. C. |
Compromise of 1850 III | split the Mexican Cession into Utah and New Mexico; popular sovereignty would settle the question of slavery |
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 who won the presidential election in 1856 |
Dred Scott Decision | case involving a slave who sued for his freedom; ruled that slavery could spread anywhere in the US |
Dred Scott v. Sanford | 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Kansas-Nebraska Act | law that repealed the Missouri Compromise; decided that popular sovereignty would settle status of slavery in Louisiana |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 who 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 who condemned the violence in Kansas and was beat with a cane |
Preston Brooks | southern Congressman who caned Charles Sumner for his remarks over Bleeding Kansas |
Abraham Lincoln | republican from Illinois who opposed the expansion of slavery; elected president in 1860 |
Roger Taney | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sanford |
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 |