Social: 1&2 Chapter 16
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- sectionalism
- loyalty to a state or section rather than a country as a whole
- popular sovereignty
- control by the people; literal vote by the people to make important decisions
- secede
- remove oneself; in this case, to remove onself from the Union
- fugitive
- runaway
- civil war
- a war between people of the same country
- Missouri Compromise
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A compromise devised by Henry Clay that
1. added 2 new states, Maine (free) and Missouri (slave) in order to balance each other.
2. Drew an imaginary line at 36 30; above was free, but below was slave - Wimot Proviso
- A proviso devised by David Wilmot that would ban slavery from any lands won from Mexico. It was never passed into law.
- Free Soil Party
- A political party that had a main goal of keeping slavery out of western lands
- Zachary Taylor
- Whig president (1848 election)
- Stephen Douglas
- supporter of Henry Clay who took up his work with the Compromise of 1850
- Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
- A harsh law that put a fine of 1000$ and six months in jail on those who helped runaways escape
- Compromise of 1850
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1. Allowed CA to enter the Union as a free state.
2. Divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into territories of New Mexico and Utah; stand on slavery to be determined by popular sovereignty
3. Enter slave trade in Washington
4. Strict fugitive slave law
5. Settled a border between Texas and New Mexico - Why were there doubts about allowing California to enter the Union?
- California would enter as a free state, thus upsetting the balance of power in the Senate; it seemed possible that other free states might join soon
- What were the three main stands on the issue of slavery?
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1. Pro-slavery
2. Anti-slavery
3. Moderates - repeal
- undo
- guerilla warfare
- the use of hit-and-run tactics
- lawsuit
- a legal case brought by a person or group against another to settle a dispute between them
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Novel that showed the evils of slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Law; inspired antislavery feeling in many on-the-fence northerners
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Divided the Nebraska Territory into two parts, Kansas and Nebraska, whose stand on slavery would be determined by popular sovereignty
- Franklin Pierce
- Democrat elected as President in 1852 who pushed K-N Act
- Border Ruffians
- Proslavery bands who battled antislavery groups in Kansas
- John Brown
- Abolitionist who killed five proslavery men
- Bleeding Kansas
- A nickname for the violent territory of Kansas
- Charles Sumner
- Massachusetts abolitionist senator who was killed because of his outspoken views, especially criticizing Andrew Butler, by Butler's nephew Preston Brooks
- Dred Scott decision
- The Court's ruling on the Dred Scott case that 1. Scott could not file a lawsuit, 2. slaves were property, 3. due to that Congress could not outlaw slavery in a territory