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Chapter 15
Events leading to Civil War
| Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Law | (1)California becomes a free state (2) Slave trade outlawed in Washington D.C. (3) Northerners are required to help catch runaway slaves or the can be fined or put in jail |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | (1) novel writen by Harriet Beecher Stove- was calle the "little woman who started the great big war" |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | (1) Wrote by Stephen Douglas in order to build a railroad acoss the U.S. This law allows POPULAR SOVERIGNTY(votes by people in the area) to decide the issue of slavery in these areas |
| Bleeding Kansas | Fighting between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas becomes known as ______________. |
| Dred Scott vs. Sanford | Court ruled that all blacks were not citizens and that slaves were "property" because property rights are protected b the 5th amendment. |
| Dred Scott | slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | Lincoln lost but gained nationwide popularity which helped him win the presidential election of 1860 |
| Attack on Harper's Ferry | (1) John Brown led an attack on a U.S arsenal in the town of Harper's Ferry in Virginia. He wanted weapons for a slave rebellion. (2) Robert E. Lee of the U.S. army captured Brown who was tried and executed. The North saw him as a martyr. |
| Martyr | one who dies for a cause |
| Lincoln's Election | (1) Lincoln opposed slavery but promised NOT to free slaves in the South. He and the Republican Party just wanted to prevent slavery from spreading west. |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederate States of America |
| Part of Compromise of 1850 that please the North | California was admitted as a free state |
| Part of Compromise of 1850 that pleased the South | Congress would pass a stronger law to help slaveholders capture runaway slaves |
| Fugitive Slave Act | 1850 law to help slaveholders capture runaway slaves |
| Popular Sovereignty | Government where people rule |
| Roger B. Taney | I was the Cheif Justice who arguedthat Gongress could not ban slavery in the territories because to do so would violate the slaveholders' property rights |
| Abe Lincoln | I was nominated by the Republicans torun for the Senate seat from Illinois in 1858 (I lost...but it helped me later on) |
| James Buchanan | I was president when the first states seceded and said that the Constitution could not be treated as a "rope of sand" |
| John Brown | Murdered 5 people, later attack arsenal at Harpers Ferry, and I was hanged for treason but treated like a martyr by Northerners |
| True | Popular sovereighnty gave people in a territory the right to determine whether their territory allowed slavery or not |
| False (corrected: Harper's Ferry was a TOWN IN VIRGINIA WITH A WEAPONS ARSENAL) | Harpers Ferry was a boat docked in Chesapeake Bay |
| False (corrected: The DEMOCRATIC party split in the election of 1860) | The Republican party split in the election of 1860 |
| True | Seven states seceded after Lincoln was elected but before his inaguration. They thought he would end slavery, even when he said he wouldn't. (honest abe!!!) |
| False ( SOUTH CAROLINA was the first state to secede from the Union) | Georgia was the first state to secede from the Union |
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