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Chapter 15

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Wilmot Proviso   a proposed bill by Rep David Wilmot that outlawed slavery in any territory taken from Mexico  
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Free-Soil Party   a political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery  
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Henry Clay   Senator from Kentucky that helped to draft a plan to settle California called the Compromise of 1850  
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Daniel Webster   Senator from Massachusetts that supported the Compromise of 1850 for the sake of the union  
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Stephen A. Douglas   Drafted a bill for governing the Nebraska Territory and helped get the winning passage of the Compromise of 1850  
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popular sovereignty   people vote if their state should allow slavery or not  
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fugitive slave act   law that helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves  
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Harriet Beecher Stowe   Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral  
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Compromise of 1850   The plan that allowed California to enter the union and laws to settle the major disagreement between free and slave states  
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Terms of the Compromise   1. CA to enter the union as a free state 2. slave trade would end in Washington DC 3. Congress would not pass laws regarding slavery for the rest of the territory won from Mexico 4. a strict new fugitive slave law was passed  
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Kansas-Nebraska Act   divides the territory into Kansas and Nebraska and allows a vote for slavery in an area where the Missouri Compromise banned it  
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John Brown   led a massacre of proslavery people  
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Preston Brooks   caned Senator Charles Sumner after Sumner insulted a relative of Brooks in congress  
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border ruffians   people who rushed to vote illegally in areas  
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Pottawaomie Massacre   Led by Jon Brown, in retaliation for Lawrence Kansas, they murdered 5 proslavery people  
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Bleeding Kansas   civil war that brok out in Kansas over slavery….lasted for 3 years  
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3 candidates in the election of 1856   1. James Buchanan (Democrat) * won 2. John C. Fremont ( (Republican) 3. Millard Fillmore ( Know Nothing Party)  
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Republican party   the political party that formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories  
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Dred Scott vs. Stanford   1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to a free territory  
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Roger Taney   Chief Justice of the Supreme Court  
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Abraham Lincoln   ran against Stephen Douglas for the senate seat in Illinois  
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Harpers Ferry   A federal arsenal in Virginia that was captured in 1859 during a slave revolt  
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What two things did the election of 1856 show?   1. The Republican Party was a force in the north 2. The nation was sharply split over slavery  
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