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Unit 10B Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Law that repealed the Missouri Compromise; decided that popular sovereignty would settle status of slavery in Louisiana.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. |