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Soc studs ch15 RM
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bill to outlaw slavery in any territory the United States might acquire from the war with Mexico | Wilmot Proviso |
| political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery | Free-Soil party |
| senator of Kentucky that helped create the Missouri Compromise in 1820 | Henry Clay |
| senator from Massachusetts who support the compromise for the sake of the union | Daniel Webster |
| Senator of Illinois who wins the passage of the plan | Stephen A Douglas |
| series of laws intended to settle the disagreements between free and slaves states | Compromise of 1850 |
| abolitionist who was angered by the Compromise of 1850 | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| novel that potrayed slavery as brutal and immortal | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| 1850 law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves | Fugitive Slave Act |
| system where the residents vote to decide an issue | Popular sovereignty |
| law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| extreme abolitionists that murdered seven people | John Brown |
| northern whigs joined with other opponents of slavery | Republican Party |
| national hero for his exploration in the west | John C Fremont |
| minister to Great Britain who ran for presidency | James Buchanan |
| case in which Dred Scott sue his slave owner for his freedom | Dred Scott vs Sandford |
| chief justice who delivered his opinionin the case | Roger B Taney |
| challenger against douglas for us senate | Abraham Lincoln |
| city in Virginia where they capture the weapons in the US arsenal | Harpers Ferry |
| staement of beliefs | platform |
| withdrawfrom the union | secede |
| club in which the seceded states formed | Confederate States of America |
| president of the confederacy | Jefferson Davis |
| Compromise that prevented secession but did not pass | Crittenden Plan |