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Ch.#15
Ch.15 BN
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wilmot Proviso | representative of pennsylvania proposed to outlaw slavery in any territory the US might acquire from the US |
| Free-Soil Party | a political party dedicated to stopping slavery |
| Henry Clay | Created a plan to help settle the californis problem |
| Daniel Webster | a senator of massachusetts that supported the compromise by Clay |
| Stephen A. Douglas | senator of illinois who helped make the compromise of 1850 a law |
| Compromise of 1850 | a compromise that helped the north make california a free state and congress could not govern whether slavery was in the territories won and helped recapture runaway slaves |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | a woman who was angered by the Compromise of 1850 and wrote uncle tom's cabin |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral and written by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Fugitive Slave Act | the 1850 law that helped slaveowners recapture their runaway slaves |
| popular soveignty | a system where the residents vote to decide an issue |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | an 1854 law that had Kansas and Nebraska's residents choose whether or not thay wanted slavery |
| John Brown | an extreme abolitionist who went and killed five people to avenge Sack of Lawrence |
| Republican Party | the Northern Whigs joined with opponents of slavery |
| John C. Fremont | the 1856 presidential candidate for the republican party |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | after his owner's deathe, Dred scott sued for his freedom claiming that since he lived in a territory where slavery was illegal he was a free man |
| Roger B. Taney | the Chief Justice who said that Dred Scott was not a citizen and couldn't sue the court and he be placed under Missouri's slave code |
| Abraham Lincoln | the 1858 republican of illinois who was nominated to challenge Douglas for his Senator's seat |
| Harpers Ferry | a town in Virginia where John Brown captured weapons and armed slaves to rebell, but no slave fought |
| platform | statement of belief |
| secede | withdraw from the Union |
| Confederate States of America | the states that seceded formed this |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederacy |
| Crittenden Plan | a compromise presented to congress by John Crittenden but didn't pass |
| James Buchanan | The 1856 presidential candidate for the Democratic party |
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