Chapter 10
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- Franklin Pierce
- 14th president
- Republican Party
- political party formed to oppose extending slagery in the territories
- Know-Nothing Party
- Political party formed to stop the influence of immigrants
- Dred Scott
- slave who was briefly taken by his owner into free territory
- Underground Railroad
- secret network of people who hid fugitive slaves who went north to freedom
- Roger B. Taney
- chief justice who wrote the ruling in the Dred Scott case
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- law that split nebraska into the territories of nebraska and kansas and allowed for popular sovereignty there
- Free-Soil Party
- political party formed to oppose extending slavery in the territories
- Harriet Tubman
- famous "conductor" of the underground railroad
- Harpers Ferry
- Location of federal arsenal that John Brown raided to get guns to arm slaves
- Comprimise of 1850
- series of measures that were intended to settle the disagreements between free states and slave states
- popular sovereignty
- idea that people living in a territory should make their own decisions, especially the decision to admit slavery
- Bleeding Kansas
- Nickname given to the kansas territory because of the bloody violence there.
- Fugitive Slave Act
- Law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them
- "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
- antislavery novel
- Stephen A. Douglas
- senator from illinois who worked to pass the Comprimise of 1850
- nativism
- favoring native-born people over immigrants
- Abraham Lincoln
- president during the civil war
- Wilmot Proviso
- Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the war with mexico
- Confederacy
- "Confederate States of America" formed in 1861 by the southern states that seceded from the Union
- John Brown
- fierce opponent of slavery who led a raid that killed 5 proslavery people
- John C Fremont
- republican candidate in the 1856 presidential election
- James Buchanan
- 15th president
- Jefferson Davis
- president of the Confederate States of America
- Horace Greeley
- Newspaper editor who strongly supported the newly-formed republican party
- personal liberty laws
- laws passed by northern states forbidding the imprisonment of escaped slaves
- secession
- decision by a state to leave the union
- Millard Fillmore
- 13th president
- Freeport Doctrine
- idea that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- author of the antislavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"