Flashcards in Chapter 10 - The Union in Peril Deck (30)
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Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico.
Wilmot Proviso
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Decision by a state to leave the Union.
Secession
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Series of measures that were intended to settle the disagreements between the free and slave states.
Compromise of 1850
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Idea that people living in a territory should make their own decisions, especially the decision to admit slavery.
Popular sovereignty
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Senator from Illinois who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850.
Stephen A. Douglas
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13th president.
Millard Fillmore
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Law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them.
Fugitive Slave Act
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Laws passed by Northern states forbidding the imprisonment of escapes slaves.
Personal liberty laws
8
Secret network of people who hid fugitive slaves who went north to freedom
Underground Railroad
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Famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
10
Author of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Antislavery novel.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Law that split Nebraska into the territories of Nebraska and Kansas and allowed for popular sovereignty there.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Fierce opponent of slavery who led a raid that five proslavery people.
John Brown
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Nickname given to e Kansas Territory because of the bloody violence there.
Bleeding Kansas
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14th president.
Franklin Pierce
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Favoring native-born people over immigrants.
Nativism
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Political party form to stop influence of immigrants.
Know-Nothing Party
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Political party form to oppose extending slavery in the territories.
Free-Soil Party
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Political party form to oppose extending slavery in the territories.
Republican Party
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Newspaper editor who strongly supported the newly formed Republican Party.
Horace Greeley
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Republican candidate in the 1856 presidential election.
John C. Frémont
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15th President.
James Buchanan.
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Slave who was briefly taken by his owner into free territory.
Dred Scott
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Chief Justice who wrote the ruling Dred Scott case.
Roger B. Taney
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President during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
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Idea that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it.
Freeport Doctrine
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Location of federal arsenal that John Brown raided to get guns to arm slaves.
Harpers Ferry
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"Confederate Sates of America," formed in 1861 by the Southern states that seceded from the Union.
Confederancy
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