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Chapter 15 Vocab

Chapter 15 Vocabulary

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Wilmot Proviso outlawed slavery in any state acquired in the war with Mexico; never became a law
Free-Soil Party a party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery
Henry Clay created a plan: California would be a slave state if all other territorial (from the War with Mexico) gains were slavery-free
Daniel Webster supported Clay's plan; wanted to preserve the Union
Stephen A. Douglas the job of winning passage of the plan fell to him
Compromise of 1850 Clay's plan; passed as a law
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin spoke out against slavery; book
Fugitive Slave Act helped slaveholders recover lost slaves
Popular Sovereignty residents vote to decide on an issue
Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed people to vote for slavery in territories where the Missouri Compromise banned it
John Brown an extreme abolitionist
Republican Party opponents of slavery
John C. Fremont republican presidential candidate in 1856
James Buchanan democrats nominated him as presidential candidate in 1856
Dred Scott v. Sandford a court case that split the nation on slavery (he was a slave, went to a non-slave state, came back to Missouri and upon his master's death sued for freedom, went to supreme court.)
Roger B. Taney said Dred Scott was not a US citizen therefore could not sue (Chief Justice)
Abraham Lincoln challenged Douglas for his seat in the Senate
Harpers Ferry John Brown planned to capture weapons here
platform statement of beliefs
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 plan that was not passed
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