Chapter 10 Vocab

Question 1

John C. Calhoun

Answer 1

South Carolina’s senator that declared secession if slavery was outlawed

Question 2

David Wilmot

Answer 2

introduced Wilmot Proviso (an amendment to military appropriations bill proposing that no slave or involuntary servant hood would exist in the territories the United States would gain from Mexico)

Question 3

secession

Answer 3

formal withdrawal of a state from the Union

Question 4

Zachary Taylor

Answer 4

General to secede Polk in Presidency and believed states should deal with slavery individually

Question 5

Henry Clay

Answer 5

wrote the Compromise of 1850

Question 6

Compromise of 1850

Answer 6

series of resolutions concerning slavery

Question 7

popular sovreignty

Answer 7

the right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery

Question 8

Daniel Webster

Answer 8

gave famous speech about standing as American and don’t secede cuz constitution is great :D

Question 9

Stephen A. Douglas

Answer 9

passed individual statements of Compromise of 1850 (smarty-pants) but then later repealed Missouri Compromise

Question 10

Millard Filmore

Answer 10

President Zachary Taylor’s successor who agreed with Compromise of 1850

Question 11

Anthony Burns

Answer 11

escaped slave forced back into slavery in Virginia

Question 12

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 12

return of slaves without a trial and no testimony (harsh)

Question 13

personal liberty laws

Answer 13

Northerners passed these an they forbade prisons for slaves and gave them the right to a jury against what the Fugitive Slave Act stated

Question 14

Underground Railroad

Answer 14

a secret network of people that helped slaves escape

Question 15

Harriet Tubman

Answer 15

a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad and helped over 300 slaves escape; strong abolitionist speaker later in life

Question 16

Harry Grimes

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a slave who ran away from North Carolina

Question 17

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 17

book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed moral and political struggle within slavery; SOLD TONS OF COPIES

Question 18

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 18

author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 19

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 19

allowed popular sovereignty, made two territories, and deleted the Missouri Compromise

Question 20

the sack of Lawrence

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violent posse in Kansas that burned antislavery stuff

Question 21

John Brown

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abolitionist that rallied folks and tried to cause revolt but was shut down; also led the Pottawatomie Massacre

Question 22

Pottawatomie Massacre

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Revenge driven from the sack of Lawrence, abolitionists took men from their beds ad impaled them for destroying what they stood for.

Question 23

Bleeding Kansas

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term used to call Kansas after Pottawatomie Massacre, the sack of Lawrence, and other deaths due to the domino effect

Question 24

Charles Sumner

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delivered a speech in senate and made fun of southern beliefs and was attacked by Preston Brooks with cane and hit unconscious

Question 25

Preston S. Brooks

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attacked Sumner with a cane and was praised by the south

Question 26

Horace Greeley

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editor of the New York Tribune; abolitionist; against popular sovereignty; founder of the Republican party

Question 27

Republican Party

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new antislavery party in 1855; opposed Kansas-Nebraska Act and agreed to keeping slavery away from territories; some wanted Missouri Compromise but some were abolitionists

Question 28

General Winfield Scott

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Whigs presidential nominee in 1852

Question 29

Franklin Pierce

Answer 29

1852 president winner for democrats

Question 30

nativism

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favoring of native-born Americans over immigrants

Question 31

Know-Nothing Party

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made of nativists, against immigration, anti-catholic, eventually split cuz of slavery issues and angled republican

Question 32

Free-Soil Party

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was a kind of Republican party that was against the extension of slavery into other territories (didn’t have to be an abolitionist); didn’t want blacks to settle in the communities or have voting rights

Question 33

John C. Fremont

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founder of CA; Republican presidential candidate; mapped Oregon trail

Question 34

James Buchanan

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Democrat’s nominee from the north but had southern friends and won the election in 1856 cuz he was the only one known to be the true national candidate; a week an indecisive leader

Question 35

Dred Scott

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a slave that claimed freedom in court after living north of Missouri Compromise line and then master died

Question 36

Roger B. Taney

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Supreme Court Chief Justice of the Dred Scott case that ruled no rights to slaves

Question 37

Lecompton Constitution

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constitution written up by proslavery folk in Kansas that protected slaveholder’s rights and they asked to join the union; free-soilers against it and took a vote and outnumbered them

Question 38

Abraham Lincoln

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Republican candidate that went against democrat Douglas for the 1858 senate position

Question 39

Freeport Doctrine

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Douglas’ response to Lincoln’s question of whether or not settlers could vote slavery illegal before it was a territory WAS: slavery only exists if supported by local police

Question 40

Harpers Ferry

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John Brown led 21 men and tried to capture federal arsenal and distribute weapons to begin slave uprising

Question 41

William H. Seward

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Republican many thought would be the presidential candidate for election of 1860

Question 42

South Carolina

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the first state to secede from the union

Question 43

Confederacy

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the secessionist states united an wrote new constitution that recognized slavery in multiple new territories & made each state sovereign and independent (this made it hard for them to unify during civil war)

Question 44

Jefferson Davis

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first president of the Confederate States of America

Question 45

Alexander Stephens

Answer 45

vice president of the Confederacy