Mr H chapter 16
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- Preston Brooks
- a represenative who beat Sumner unconscious in the senate chamber
- Sectionaalism
- happens when people favor the interests of one region over the interests of the country as a whole
- Confederate States of America
- the name of the new southern nation
- Wilmot Proviso
- stated that slavery shall not exist in any parts of the Mexican Cession (this never became law)
- Daniel Webster
- a Senator from Massachusetts who was opposed to the expansion of slavery
- Dred Scott
- a slave who sued for his freedom because he had lived on "free soil"
- Compromise of 1850
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1. California would enter as a free state
2. The issue of slavery in the rest of the Mexican Cession would be decided by popular sovereignty
3. Texas would give up its claim to all land east of the upper Rio Grande. In exchange the federal government would pay Texas's old debts
4. Called for an end to slave trade in Washington
5. Called for a new more effective fugitive slave law - popular sovereignty
- allow voters in a territory to decide weather they wanted slavery or not
- Roger B. Taney
- The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Dred Scott case
- John Breckinridge
- a canidate in the election of 1860 that supported slavery in the territories
- John Bell
- was selected as a presidental canidate by the Constitutional Union Party
- Constitutional Union Party
- a party that only supported the Constitution of the United States and the enforcement of it's laws
- secession
- formally witdrawing from the union
- Charles Sumner
- gave a speech called "The Crime against Knasas" which criticized pro-slavery efforts
- John C. Fremont
- a Republican canidate for president who opposed the spread of slavery
- Dred Scott decision
- claimed that Dred Scott did not have the right to file suit in federal court
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
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popular sovereignty would decide the question of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Franklin Pierce
- 14th President of the United States
- Anthony Burns
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-a fugitive slave who was caught in Boston
-abolitionists killed a marshal while attempting to try to free him - James Buchanan
- 15th President of the United States
- Fugitive Slave Act
- made it a crime to help runaway slaves
- Republican Party
- Whigs, some Democrats, Free-Soilers, and abolitionists joined together to form this party that opposed slavery in the west
- Pottawatomie Massacre
- John Brown led a group of men that killed 5 pro-slavery men
- Stephen Douglas
- Introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act to Congress
- Freeport Doctrine
- put control of the slavery question back in the hands of American citizens
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- a powerful anti-slavery novel
- Licoln-Douglas debates
- a series of debates that made Lincoln famous
- Abraham Lincoln
- 16th President of the United States
- Jefferson Davis
- was elected president of the Confederate States of America
- Henry Clay
- nicknamed the Great Compromiser
- Free-Soil Party
- a party that supported the Wilmont Proviso
- John Crittenden
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-a senator who proposed a plan that he hoped would save the union from civil war
-his plan called for the extension of slavery to new territories south of the old Missouri Compromise Line
-federal money would be used to compensate slaveowners for slaves that ran away - John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
- John Brown and his men attacked the military storehouse to try to start a slave revolt