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Ch 15 s.s. vocab-CC
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A bill that proposed to ban slavery in many territories | Wilmot Proviso |
| A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery | Free-Soil Party |
| U.S. senator from Kentucky who proposed the Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay |
| U.S. senator from Massachusetts who supported the Compromise of 1850 | Daniel Webster |
| U.S. senator from illinois who supported the Compromise of 1850 | Stephen A. Douglas |
| Effort by Congress to settle the issue of slavery in the territories that arose when California was admitted as a free state | Compromise of 1850 |
| Author of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Law that helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves | Frugitive Slave Act |
| A system where residents vote to decide an issue | popular sovereignty |
| Law that split the Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska and allowed people to vote on slavery in these territories | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| An extreme abolitionist | John Brown |
| Antislavery political party that formed in the 1850s | Republican Party |
| Republican Party candidate in the 1856 presidential election | John C. Fremont |
| 15th president | James Buchanan |
| Court case that extended the rights of slaveholders and limited legal efforts to challenge slavery | Dred Scott v. Sandford |
| Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who wrote the lead opinion in the Dred Scott case | Roger B. Taney |
| Illinois Republican candidate for the U.S. senate in 1858, and later 16th president of the U.S. | Abraham Lincoln |
| Location of U.S. arsenal in Virginia, which was raided by John Brown. | Hapers Ferry |
| A statement of beliefs | Platform |
| To formally withdraw from the Union | secede |
| Confederation formed by the seceded Southern states | Confederate States of America |
| President of the Confederacy | Jefferson Davis |
| Compromise plan to prevent secession | Crittenden Plan |