15-1 april 10 Flashcards
(17 cards)
Missouri compromise
preserved balance between slave and free states in the senate.
sectionalism
loyalty
temporary
brief
regulate
control
fugitive
runaway
seceding
leaving
Stephen a Douglas
Illinois senator. divided Clays plan into parts that could be voted on separately
abstain
not vote
compromise of 1850
five bills in 1850.
fugitive slave act
attempt to pacify slaveholders. required all citizens to help catch runaways
network
interconnected system
popular sovereignty
allowing people to decide
Kansas Nebraska act
people came into Kansas to vote for slavery. allowed people to settle in Kansas and Nebraska
border ruffians
Missourians traveling in armed groups to cross border to vote for election
inevitable
unavoidable
civil war
conflict between citizens of the same country
John brown
abolitionist. lest a group along a creek where they seized and killed five pro slavery