US History Ch 11 Sec 2
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- Franklin Pierce
- a strong supporter of the Compromise of 1850 who persuaded people on both sides of the slavery issue that he shared their views
- Winfield Scott
- another Mexican war hero that the Whigs turned to
- Fugitive Slave Act
- made it a federal crime to help runaway slaves and allowed the escaped slaves anywhere
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Kansas Nebraska Act
- created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and allowed voters to choose whether to allow slavery
- John Brown
- led a group that attacked a pro-slavery settlement along the Pottawatomie Creek
- Pottawatomie Massacre
- group led by John Brown who murdered 5 pro-slavery Kansans
- Republican Party
- formed in 1854 by anti-slavery Whigs and "Democrats
- James Buchanan
- nominated for president from Pennsylvania
- Lecompton Constitution
- gave voters the right to decide whether more slacces could enter the territory but not whether slavery should exist there