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Unit Five APUSH
Mrs. Grieve's Unit Five (Antebellum) APUSH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| sectionalism | refers to the growing division between North and South from the founding of the nation until the Civil War |
| Free Soil Movement | comprised of northern Democrats and Whigs who did NOT want to end slavery – just none in the west so whites would not have to compete with them for jobs |
| Popular Sovereignty | the idea that the people who settled a territory should decide the issue of slavery for that territory by voting |
| Compromise of 1850 | first proposed by Henry Clay; meant to resolve the dispute over the admission of California and New Mexico as free states |
| Fugitive Slave Law | as part of the Compromise of 1850, it said the federal government would be responsible for hunting down runaway slaves; captured persons were denied trial by jury |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | proposed by Stephen Douglas, it divided Nebraska territory into Kansas and Nebraska and allowed popular sovereignty in each place; this effectively nullified the Missouri Compromise line and upset anti-slavery northerners |
| Underground Railroad | system developed by some abolitionists to aid runaway slaves on their journeys north (usually to Canada) |
| Harriet Tubman | escaped slave who helped run the Underground Railroad; also known as a conductor |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | Supreme Court case which caused increased sectionalism because slaves were deemed property and because it declared the Missouri Compromise line unconstitutional |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | novel which played upon stereotypes to appeal to anti-slavery feelings of northern |
| Impending Crisis in the South | anti-slavery novel which attacked slavery from an economic standpoint (said slavery impeded industrial development) |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Lincoln referred to her as the “Little lady who started the Civil War” |
| Hinton Helper | author of Impending Crisis in the South |
| Cannibals All | pro-slavery novel which argued paternalistic slavery protected blacks from becoming “wage slaves” in the north |
| George Fitzhugh | author of Cannibals All |
| Bleeding Kansas | term that referred to violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas |
| New England Emigrant Aid Company | anti-slavery group that paid for transport of anti-slavery people into Kansas |
| Lecompton Constitution | pro-slavery constitution in Kansas; written after pro-slavery forces voted illegally in Kansas elections |
| Harper’s Ferry | federal arsenal in Virginia raided by John Brown in his attempt to start a massive slave revolt in 1859 |
| John Brown | radical abolitionist whose raid of Harper’s Ferry resulted in his execution |
| Free Soil Party | political party comprised of “conscience Whigs” and anti-slavery Democrats; wanted no expansion of slavery in territories |
| Whig Party | one of the two political parties in the second party system, it died out in the 1850s because it never took a clear stance on slavery |
| American Party (Know Nothings) | northern political party comprised of nativists (old Protestants) who hated Irish Catholic and German Catholic immigrants; took votes from Whigs thus contributing to Whig decline |
| Republican Party | political party that formed as direct result of Kansas-Nebraska Act; compromised of groups who opposed slavery or its extension (Free Soilers, conscience Whigs, anti-slavery Democrats, radical abolitionists) |
| free labor ideology | idea promoted by early Republican Party that said slavery was economically inefficient |
| Stephen Douglas | Democratic senator from Illinois who believed in popular sovereignty; ran against Lincoln for presidency in 1860 |
| Freeport Doctrine | the position on slavery taken by Stephen Douglas during the debates with Lincoln in 1858; slavery could not exist if local legislation did not accept it; Douglas refused to say whether he believed slavery was right or wrong |
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