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chapter 13 vocab

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Haitian revolution successful anti slavery and anti colonial insurrection by liberated slaved against French colonial rule in Saint-Dominigue, now the sovereign nation of Haiti
Missouri compromise the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the us a a free state along w Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between north and south in the US senate
Democratic party one of the 2 major contemporary political parties in the US. main rival - republican party
whig party american political part formed to oppose president andrew jackson and the democrats. stood for protective tariffs, national banking, and internal improvements.
Frederick Douglass american abolitionist and writer, escaped slavery and became a leading african american spokesman and writer
Free soil party political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into US territories
Wilmot proviso Divided congress, said any gained territory would be a free state. This bill was not passed.
Compromise of 1850 series of measures that were intended to settle the disagreements between free states and slave states
Fugitive slave act a law enacted as part of compromise of 1850 to ensure the escaped slaves would be returned into bondage.
Uncle Tom's Cabin A novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral
Stephen Douglas A moderate who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 and popularized the idea of popular sovereignty
Popular sovereignty A belief that ultimate power resides in the people
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 - created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to choose to be a free of slave state thru popular sovereignty
Bleeding Kansas 1856 - a series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in kansas who had moved to kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not kansas would be a slave state or free state
Charles Sumner A leader of the Radical Republicans along w Thaddeus Stereris. He was from Massachusetts and was in senate. 2 main goals - breaking power of wealthy planters and ensuring that freedmen could vote
Republican Party Anti-slavery Whigs and democrats, free soilers and reformed from the northwest met and formed party in order to keep slavery out of the territories.
Scott vs Sandford Dredd Scott was a slave who was taken to Wisconsin to live freely for 2 years. He argued that the 2 years he lived in free soil make him a freedman. Sued for his freedom. SC decided that he was a slave
John Brown Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Election of 1860 Lincoln (republican candidate) won bc Democratic party was split over slavery. As a result, the south no longer felt like it had a voice in politics and a umber of states seceded from the Union
Secession Formal act of states withdrawing from the US union
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