Ap History Chapter 14 Vocab

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Preston Brooks

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a South Carolina representative. He was a slaveholder who beat Sumner, the ant-slavery Senator from Massachusetts, with a cane, earning the name "Bully Brooks"

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Squatter sovereignty

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a formula leaving the determination of the status of slavery to the occupants of the region.

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Fugitive Slave Law

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suspected fugitives denied a trial by jury, the right to testify on their own behalf, and other Constitutional rights.

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Franklin Pierce

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The Democratic nominee and winner of the election of 1852. He didn't stand for any major issues and was innefectual.

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Ostend Manifesto

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Urged the acquisition of Cuba by any means necessary. When it became public, Northerners claimed it was a plot to extend slavery and the manifesto was disavowed.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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An enormously successful novel that fixed int he northern mind the image of a slaveholder as a brutal Simon Legree. It portrayed slavery as a threat to the family and cult of domesticity.

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Compromise of 1850

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California admitted as free state, slave trade prohibited in District of Colombia, Strong fugitive slave law passed, enlarged New Mexico territory to be admitted on base of popular sovereignty.

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Freeport Doctrine

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Lincoln questioned Douglas on how he could reconcile such popular sovereignty with the Dred Scott Decision. Douglas replied that slavery could not exist without supportive legislation to sustain it and that territorial legislatures could simply refrain from passing a slave code if they wanted to keep it out.

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Impending Crisis of the South

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Called on lower class whites to resist planter domination and abolish slavery in their own interest.

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Lecompton Constitution

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When a fraudelently elected group of pro-slavery delegates men in Kansas and drafted a state constitution. Congress denied Kansas's entry into the Union under this constitution.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Established the status of slavery on the Kansas-Nebraska territory based on popular sovereignty

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Know-Nothings

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campaigned against immigrants, specifically new arrivals from Ireland, fear of takeover of slavery

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John Brown

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revolutionary abolitionist in the United States, who led a raid on Harper's Ferry to seize the federal arsenal. He wanted to commence a guerrilla war, but he was driven out by the local militia and hanged

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James Buchanan

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Democratic President from 1856-1860, wanted to reduce sectional tension with Dredd Scott decision

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Dred Scott vs. Sanford

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Missouri slave sued for his freedom on the grounds that he had lived for many years in an area where slavery had been outlawed. Justice Roger B. Taney decided that no African American could be a citizen of the U.S.,and the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional

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Abe Lincoln

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A former Whig congressman. He was antislavery and debated with Douglas for the senate seat in 1858

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John Breckinridge

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The southern Democratic candidate in the Election of 1860. His platform was federal protection for slavery in the territories

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John C Fremont

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Explorer of the west and participant of the Mexican-American war, he was nominated by the Republicans in the election of 1856 on the platform of liberation of kansas from slave power and congressional prohibition of slavery in all territories.