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US History Ch.15
Ch.15 Vocab JX
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A bill that outlawed slavery in any territory the US might acquire from the War with Mexico. | Wilmot Proviso |
| A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery. | Free-Soil Party |
| A Senator of Kentucky who helped create the Missouri Compromise of 1820 andd crafted a plan to settle the California problem. | Henry Clay |
| A Senator from Massachusetts who supported the compromise of 1850 for the sake of the Union. | Daniel Webster |
| Senator of Illinois who succeeded in making the plan become a law (Compromise of 1850) | Stephen A. Douglas |
| The plan to settle the California problem which became a law. | Compromise of 1850 |
| Outraged about the Compromise of 1850 helping slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| A novel written by Stowe that potrayed slavery as brutal and immoral. | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| The 1850 law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. | Fugitive Slave Act |
| A system where the residents vote to decide an issue | Popular Sovereignty |
| An act that angered opponents of slavery and turned Kansas into a battleground over slavery. | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| An extreme abolitionist. | John Brown |
| Northern whigs joined with other opponents of slavery and formed this political party. | Republican Party |
| Nominated as a presidential candidate in 1856 by the Republicans to strengthen their young party. | John C. Frémont |
| Nominated by Democrats to run for president in 1856. | James Buchanan |
| A case where a slave sued for freedom once his owner died because he was kept as a slave where it was illegal. | Dred Scott v. Sandford |
| Chief Justice who delivered his opinion in the Dred Scott case which the South favored. | Roger B. Taney |
| Nominated by Illinois Republicans to challenge Douglas for his US Senate seat. | Abraham Lincoln |
| In Virginia where weapons in the US arsenal was kept. | Harpers Ferry |
| statement of beliefs | platform |
| withdraw from the Union | secede |
| States who seceded who met and formed this. | Confederate States of America |
| Named president of the Confederacy in the Convention of the seceded states. | Jefferson Davis |
| A compromise plan that was presented to Congress but it did not pass. | Crittenden Plan |
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