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Unit 10B
vocab
Term | Definition |
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Henery Clay | co-author of the compromise of 1850 |
stephen douglas 1 | co-aouthor of the compromise of 1850: proposed the kansas act |
stephen douglas 2 | belives in popular sovereignty ; ran against lincon for senate 1858; lost presidential election in 1860 |
john c. calhoun | opposed to the compromise if 1850; predicted disunion |
Compromise of 1850 | worked out when california applied for state hood |
Compromise 1850 2 | outlawed the slave trade in washington DC |
Compromise 1850 3 | split Mexican Cession into utah and New Mexico; popular sovergintey 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 buchanon | Democrat that won the presidential election during 1856 |
dred scott decision | case involving a slave that sued for his freedom and ruled that slavery could spread anywhere in the US |
dred scott VS. sandford | Supreme Corse 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 soill party | formed as a result of the Wilmot Proviso first party that opposed the spread of slavery |
kasas-nebraska ACT | Law that repealed the Missouri Compromise and decided that popular sovereignty would settle status of slavery in Louisiana |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 of the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
charles sumner | northern scnator that condemned the violence in Kansas and was beat with a cane |
Preston brook | southern congressman that caned Charles Sumner for his remarks over bleeding kansas |
Abraham lincon | republican from Illinois that opposed the expansion of slaevery; elected president in 1860 |
roger taney | chief justice of the supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford |
harpers ferry | U.S .army arsenal in Virginia that John Brown raided |
popular soverignty | the idea that the people of a territory would vote on the issue of slavery |