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