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Question | Answer |
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Wilmot Proviso | outlaw slavery in every territory of the U.S |
Free Soil Party | party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery |
Henry Clay | created a plan to please the North and the South |
Stephen A. Douglas | got the job of winning passage of the plan. |
Compromise of 1850 | designed to settle the disagreements of the free and slave states |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | she wrote Uncle Tom's Caabin to say that slavery is brutal and immoral |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | novel that states slavery is immoral |
Fugitive Slave Act | help slaveowners recapture runaway slaves |
Popular Soverignty | when residents vote to decide an issue |
Kansas-Nebraska Act | law that allowed residents to vote for slave states |
John Brown | along with seven other men killed 5 slaveowners |
Republican Party | party of abolitionists |
John C. Fremont | national hero for his explorations in the West |
James Bunchanan | democratic nominee for presidency |
Dres Scott v.s. Sandford | Dred Scott sued for his freeedom after his qwner died and sent his case to court |
Roger B. Taney | Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court who said Dred couln't sue cause he wan't a citizen |
Abraham Lincoln | challenged Douglas for his seat in the Senate |
Harpers Ferry | held the U.S Weapons aresonal in Virginia |
Platform | statement of beliefs |
Secede | withdraw from the Union |
Confederate States of America | seceded states formed this in Monntgomery |
Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederacy |
Crittenden Plan | compromis that could have stopped seccesion |