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30 Cards in this Set
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Wilmot Proviso |
Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico |
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secession |
Decision by a state to leave the Union |
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Compromise of 1850 |
Series of measures that were intended to settle the disagreements between free states and slave states |
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popular sovereignt |
Idea that people living in a territory should make their own decisions, especially the decision to admit slavery |
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Stephen A. Douglas |
Senator from Illinois who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850 |
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Millard Fillmore |
13th president |
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Fugitive Slave Act |
Law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them |
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personal liberty laws |
Laws passed by Northern states forbidding the imprisonment of escaped slaves |
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Underground Railroad |
Secret network of people who hid fugitive slaves who went north to freedom |
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Harriet Tubman |
Famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Author of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
Antislavery novel |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act |
Law that split Nebraska into the territories of Nebraska and Kansas and allowed for popular sovereignty there |
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John Brown |
Fierce opponent of slavery who led a raid that killed five proslavery people |
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Bleeding Kansas |
Nickname given to the Kansas Territory because of the bloody violence there |
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Franklin Pierce |
14th president |
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nativism |
native-born people over immigrants |
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Know-Nothing Party |
Political party formed to stop the influence of immigrants |
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Free-Soil Party |
Political party formed to oppose extending slavery in the territories |
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Republican Party |
Political party formed to oppose extending slavery in the territories |
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Horace Greeley |
Newspaper editor who strongly supported the newly-formed Republican Party |
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John C. Frémont |
Republican candidate in the 1856 presidential election |
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James Buchanan |
15th president |
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Dred Scott |
Slave who was briefly taken by his owner into free territory |
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Roger B. Taney |
Chief Justice who wrote the ruling in the Dred Scott case |
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Abraham Lincoln |
President during the Civil War |
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Freeport Doctrine |
Idea that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it |
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Harpers Ferry |
Location of federal arsenal that John Brown raided to get guns to arm slaves |
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Confederacy |
“Confederate States of America,” formed in 1861 by the Southern states that seceded from the Union |
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Jefferson Davis |
President of the Confederate States of America |
