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Ch 15 MR
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An 1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico. | Wilmot Proviso |
| A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery. | Free-Soil Party |
| He crafted a plan to settle the California problem.California would be admitted as a free state, and the slave trade would be abolished in Washington, D.C. Congress would not pass laws regarding slavery for the rest of the territories won from Mexico. | Henery Clay |
| He supported the compromise for the sake of the Union | Daniel Webster |
| This man wrote the Compromise of 1850 | Stephen A. Douglas |
| A series of Congressional laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states. | Compromise of 1850 |
| This women wrote Uncle tom's Cabin. | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| A novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral. | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| An 1850 law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. | Fugitive Slave Act |
| A government in which the people rule; a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue. | Popular sovereignty |
| An 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery. | Kansas—Nebraska Act |
| He was a extreme abolitionist, and he murdered five people. | John Brown |
| The political party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories. | Republican Party |
| The Republicans nominated him. He lost to James Buchanan | John C. Frémont |
| The Democrats nominated him and he won against John C. Frémont | James Buchanan |
| An 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to live in territories where slavery was illegal; the Court ruled against Scott. | Dred Scott v. Sandford |
| Chief Justice in 1857 that ruledagainst Dred Scott. | Roger B. Taney |
| A federal arsenal in Virginia that was captured in 1859 during a slave revolt. | Harpers Ferry |
| A statement of beliefs. | Platform |
| Withdraw from the Union | secede |
| He was president of the Confederacy | Jefferson Davis |
| The confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union. | Confederate States of America |
| A compromise introduced in 1861 that might have prevented secession. | Crittenden Plan |
| This man started to challenge Douglass for his senate seat after the Dred Scott Descion. | Abraham Lincoln |
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