Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 Vocab. Flashcards
The idea that political power belongs to the people
Popular Sovereignty
Document stating “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory.”
Wilmot Proviso
favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country
Sectionalism
antislavery northerners
Free-Soil Party
formally withdraw
Secede
allowed California to enter the Union as a free state. The rest of the Mexican cession was divided into 2 territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty.
Compromise of 1850
made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.
Fugitive Slave Act
little-known politician from New Hampshire, promised to honor Compromise of 1850. Became president in 1852
Franklin Pierce
introduced Kansas-Nebraska Act. Supported idea of building railroads to Pacific ocean. Proslavery.
Stephen Douglas
plan that divided remainder of Louisiana Purchase into two territories- Kansas and Nebraska- and allowed people in each territory to decide on the question of slavery.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
abolitionist from New England led the Pottawatomie Massacre.
John Brown
In 1856, 800 men rode to Lawrence to arrest antislavery leaders that had already fled. The men took out their anger and set fires/looted buildings. One man died from the attack.
Sack of Lawrence
May 24, 1856, John Brown and his men killed five proslavery men in Kansas.
Pottawatomie Massacre
political party against the spread of slavery in the west.
Republican Party
was Polk’s secretary of state. Became president in 1850.
James Buchanan
Illinois lawyer. Became president in 1860. Challenged Douglas for Senate in 1858. Antislavery.
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln challenged Douglas fro representative of Illinois in the U.S. Senate.
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Where he and his men took over arsenal in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion.
John Brown’s Raid
Southern Democratic presidential candidate in 1860
John C. Breckinridge
recognized “no political principles other than the Constitution of the country, the Union of the states, and the enforcement of the laws.”
Constitutional Union Party
Constitutional Union presidential candidate in 1860.
John Ball (Bell?)
included Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. They seceded from the U.S.
Confederate States of America
Elected as president of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
