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chapter 13 LEE

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Willmot Proviso Divided congress, stated that slavery could remain where it was but that any territory gained from the war with Mexico would be admitted as free state. Bill did not pass.
Free Soil Party Political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into new U.S. territories
Fredrick Douglass American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. Advocate for the enslaved and raised the visibility of Black politics
Whig Party Political party formed in the 1830s to oppose President Jackson and the Democrats. Stressed protestant culture, federal sponsored internal improvements and reform movements like temperance, nativism and anti-slavery (although few believed in racial equali
Democratic Party Answered promise of sectionalism with benefits to working men of North, South and West. United rural, small, town and urban residents around ideas of shared community, white supremacy and desire to expand the nation.
Missouri Compromise Maine admitted a free state. Missouri admitted as slave state, made 36 degree line the new dividing line between slave and free states in the Louisiana Purchase lands.
Haitian Revolution Led by the island's enslaved people turned France's most valuable sugar colony into an independent country administered by the formerly enslaved.
Seccession South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas could not tolerate a federal government working against slavery's expansion, and voted to leave the Union.
Election of 1860 Lincoln, the Republican candidate won because the Democratic party was split over slavery. Lincoln won 40% of the popular vote and not a single southern. electoral vote.
John Brown Radical abolitionist who led unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. While in prison prophesied that the nation's crimes would only be purged with blood.
Scott vs. Sanford "Dred Scott decision" ruled that Black Americans could not be citizens, and be transported as chattel from one state to another regardless of state law. Living in a free state does not make Black Americans free.
Republican Party Energized by the Kansas-Nebraska debate, anti-slavery Whigs, Democrats and Free Soilers formed a new party in order to keep slavery out of the territories.
Charles Sumner Senator from Massachusetts violent beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks from South Carolina on the U.S. Senate floor.
Bleeding Kansas 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 a slave state or a free state.
Kansas-Nebraska Act Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
Popular Sovereignty A belief that ultimate power resides in the people, and decisions should be made through voting. Direct Democracy
Stephen Douglas Illinois Senator who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 and popularized the idea of popular sovereignty to solve the question of slavery in those territories.
Uncle Tom's Cabin Popular a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, that helped move antislavery into everyday conversation for many northerners
Fugative Slave Act Part of Compromise 1850 that empowered federal government to deputize regular citizens in arresting runaway slaves.
Compromise of 1850 Admitted California into the union as a free state, New Mexico and Utah would be allowed to determine their fates as slave or free states through popular sovereignty, created new tougher fugitive slave law.
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