mrs maney Ch.13vocAB Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Underground r.r | routes for escaping slaves. |
Fugitive Slave Act | all captured slaves had to be returned to their masters. |
Uncle toms cabin | book by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
kansas-nebraska act | The greatest single step towards the american civil war |
Steven Douglas | Kansas Nebraska act. |
Nativism | fear of hatred of immigrants, alien political movement, and ethnic minorities. |
Know nothing party | closely associated with americanism, or nativism. |
American party | national organization, important to north and south. |
Bleeding kansas | people free decided to permit slavery. attacked town of Lawrence. term applied to state |
James Buchanan | democratic party. won 1856 election. |
Dredd scott decision | Missouri compromise was ruled unconstitutional during it. |
commodore perry | first american to get japan to open up to outside trade. |
crittenden comprimise | would have guaranteed future slavery south of Missouri compromise line. |
Harpers Ferry | john brown wanted to attack this to seize federal arsenal and arm slaves. |
john bell | had most support with const. union party in election by border states of kentuky. va, and tenesee |
lecompton consitution | pro slavery document adopted in kansas by its constitutional convention |
ostend manifesto | american statement that america should buy or seize cuba |
patawatomie creek | where john brown and his sons killed 5 free soldiers in kansas |
young america | argued that democracy would triumph everywhere. |
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