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Unit 10B Vocab

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Henry Clay co-author of Compromise of 1850
Stephen Douglass co-author of Compromise of 1850; proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglass believed in popular sovereignty; ran against Lincoln for Senat in 1858; lost presidential election in 1860.
John C. Calhoun opposed the Compromise of 1850; predicted disunion.
Compromise of 1850 worked out when California applied to become a state.
Compromise of 1850 outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C
Compromise of 1850 split the Mexican Cession into New Mexico and Utah; 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 to evil of slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
James Buchanan Democrat that won the Election of 1856.
Dred Scott Decision case involving a slave that sued for his freedom; ruled that slavery could expand 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Kansas-Nebraska Act Law that repealed the Missouri Compromise; decided that popular sovereignty would settle status of slavery in Louisiana.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 abolitionists 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.
Abraham Lincoln Republican from Illinois that 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 people of the territory should vote on the issue of slavery.
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