S.S 8.1-8.3 Key Terms Flashcards
A senator from Massachusetts who was a war hawk.
Henry Clay
Clay’s plan to keep slave and free states equal.
Missouri Compromise
The right of people to create their government.
popular soverenetry
Was created to keep slavery out of the west.
Free-Soil party
To remove from
secede
A senator from South Carolina who also opposed Henry Clay’s compromise.
John C. Calhoun
Africans who fled slavery.
Fugitives
A war between people of the same country.
Civil War
Stephen Douglass of Illinois guided Clay’s Missouri Compromise in to this.
The Compromise of 1850
Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves.
Fugitive slave Act of 1850
An 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the evils of slavery.
Uncle Toms Cabin
A law passed in 1846 that banned slavery in any lands won by the United States.
Wilmot Provisio
A senator from Massachusetts who had opposed Clay’s compromise tariff in 1833.
Daniel Webster
Stephen Douglass’ bill that decided the issue of slavery by popular soverentry.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Proslavery bands that rode across the border who fought antislavery forces.
Border Ruffians
A legal case brought to settle a dispute between people or groups.
Lawsuits
A court case that shocked most Americans who opposed slavery.
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
The Whig Party created this in Michigan in 1854.
Republican Party
A gun warehouse.
Arsenal
Action against one’s country.
Treason
A person who dies because of his or her beliefs.
Martyr
A person who fights using hit and run tactics.
Guerrilla Warfare
Can not be changed
Unnamendable
The president of the confederacy during the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis
Kentucky, Maryland, West Virginia, Missouri, and Delaware.
Border States
Rule elected by the army.
Martial law
The general of the confederacy.
Robert E. Lee
