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Chapter15Vocabulary

Chapter 15 Vocabulary for Mrs. Link's class

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Wilmot Proviso a bill that proposed to ban slavery in many territories
Free-Soil Party a political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery
Henry Clay US senator from Kentucky who proposed the Compromise of 1850
Daniel Webster US senator from Massachusetts who supported the Compromise of 1850
Stephen A Douglas US senator from Illinois who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850 effort by Congress to settle the issue of slavery in the territories that arose when California was admitted as a free state
Harriet Beecher Stowe author of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
fugitive slave act law that helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves.
popular sovereignty a system where residents vote to decide an issue
Kansas Nebraska Act law that split the Nebraska territory into Kansas and Nebraska and allowed people to vote on slavery in these territories
John Brown an extreme abolitionist
Republican Party antislavery political party formed in the 1850s
John C Fremont Republican Party candidate in the 1856 presidential election
James Buchanan 15th president
Dred Scott v Sandford court case that extended the rights of slaveholders and limited the legal efforts to ban slavery
Robert B Taney chief justice of the Supreme Court who wrote the lead opinion in the Dred Scott desicion
Abraham Lincoln Illinois Republican candidate for the US senate in 1858
Harpers ferry location of US arsenal in Virginia , which was raided by John Brown
platform a statement of beliefs
secede to formally secede from the Union
Confederate States of America Confederation formed by the seceded Southern states
Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy
Crittenden Plan Compromise plan to prevent secession
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