Chapter 10 Vocab Quiz Flashcards
Wilmot Privoso
Document where no slavery should exist in any new land bought from Mexico
Free-Soil Party
Pledged national platform of freedom, resist the aggressions of slave power
popular sovereignty
policy stating that voters in a territory should decide whether or not to allow slavery there
secede
to break away from a union
Compromise of 1850
when the senate adopted legislation on Clay’s proposals
Fugitive Slave Act
added more to the earlier law, required private citizens to apprehend runaway slaves
personal liberty laws
allowed the state to arrest slave catchers for kidnapping
Underground Railroad
loosely organized network where free black people helped enslaved people
Harriet Tubman
Maryland-born fugitive slave, brave Underground Railroad conductor
Harriet Beecher-Stowe
published Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a powerful condemnation of slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act
bill passed where Kansas becomes a slave state and Nebraska becomes a free state
John Brown
abolitionist who pursuited opportunities to confront slavery
“Bleeding Kansas”
battle territory in Kansas for abolitionists and proslavery people
“Know-Nothings”
immigrants who denied to share their native background
Republican Party
party which opposed slavery
Dredd Scott
African American slave who was taken north where slavery was banned
Roger B. Taney
chief justice who handled Dredd Scott case
Abraham Lincoln
president
Stephen A. Douglas `
Lincoln’s rival Illionois politician
Harpers Ferry
location of federal arsenal, Virginia, where Brown wanted to seize with abolitionists and free slaves
Jefferson Davis
senator who convinced Congress to restrict federal controls over slavery
John C. Beckinridge
Democratic Vice President who wanted to expand slavery into the territories
Confederate States of America
the seven seceding states
Crittenden’s Compromise
plan that would “lose us everything we gained in the election”
