Chapter 14 Civil War

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Free Soil Party

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A political party in the United States which consisted of former anti-slavery members of the Whig Party and the Democratic Party. It was mainly a expansion of slavery into the western territories, arguing that free men on free soil comprised a morally and economically superior system to slavery.

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Fugitive Slave Law

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It declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters, was passed by the United States.

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Harriet Tubman

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An African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. She made thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

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Ostend Manifesto

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a document written in 1854 which stated that the United States to purchased Cuba from Spain and implied the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused.

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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Kansas–Nebraska Act was to create opportunities for a Mideastern Transcontinental railroad, It created new opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.

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Wilmot Provisio

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Proviso banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession

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William Lloyd Garrison

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An American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. Garrison was also a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement.

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Frederick Douglas

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A leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining renown for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. He was also a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.

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Popular Sovereignty

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Expresses a concept and does not necessarily reflect or describe a political reality.

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Underground Railroad

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An informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada.

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Compromise of 1850

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Were five bills that were intended to deal with the spread of slavery to territories in order to keep northern and southern interests in balance.

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Dred Scott Decision

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The decision had the effect of widening the political and social gap between North and South and took the nation closer to the brink of Civil War.

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Panic of 1857

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It was a financial problem in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over expansion of the domestic economy.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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A novel about helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s.

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Bleeding Kansas

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It took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri roughly between 1854 and 1858. They were questioning of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state.

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crittenden compromise

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Adressed the concerns that led the states in the Deep South of the United States to contemplate secession from the United States.

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Fort Sumter

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a Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston harbor, South Carolina. T

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Jefferson Davis

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Davis was in the Mexican-American War as a colonel of a volunteer regiment, and was the United States Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce.

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Andaconda Plan

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Robert E Lee

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