ch.15 vocab Word Scramble
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Wilmot Proviso | an 1846 proposal that outlawed slaver in any territory gained from the War with Mexico. |
Free-Soil Party | a political party dedicated to stoping the expansion of slavery. |
Henry Clay | a senator of Kentucky and helped create the Missouri Compromise in 1820. |
Daniel Webster | a senator fro Massachusetts, supported the compromise for sake of the Union. |
Stephen A. Douglas | a senator of Illinois, by the end of September, Douglas succeeded, and the plan, now known as the Compromise of 1850, it became a law. |
Compromise of 1850 | a series of congressional laws intended to settle he major disagreements between free states and slave states. |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | was outraged when she heard about the part of the Compromise of 1850 that would help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. |
Uncle Tom`s cabin | a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852, which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral. |
Fugitive Slave Act | an 1850 law to help slave holders recapture run away slaves. |
Popular sovereignty | a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue. |
Kansa-Nebraska Act | an 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery. |
John Brown | an extreme abolitionist. |
Republican Party | the political party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories. |
John C. Fremont | was a national hero for his explorations in the West and be a strong presidential candidate in 1856 for republicans. |
James Buchanan | a democrat in the 1856 election and won. |
Dred Scott v. Sanford | an 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to like in territories where slavery was illegal; the Court ruled against Scott. |
Roger B. Taney | Chief Justice delivered his opinion in the case. |
Abraham Lincoln | Illinois Republican to challenge Douglas for his U.S. Senate seat. |
Harpers Ferry | a federal arsenal in Virginia that was captured in 1859 during a slave revolt |
Platform | a statement of beliefs |
Secede | to withdrawal |
Confederate states of America | the confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states after there secession from the Union |
Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
Crittenden plan | a compromise introduced in 1861 that might have prevented secession. |
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