TENSIONS OF WESTWARD EXPANSION Flashcards
Compromise of 1850
An agreement that allowed California to be a free state by allowing popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law
Popular sovereignty
Residents of federal territories decide on whether to enter the union as free and slave states
Kansas Nebraska act
Divided the Nebraska territory into Kansas and Nebraska giving each territory the right to decide whether or not to allow slavers
Missouri compromise
Missouri entered the union as a slave state and Maine a free state. Banned slavery in the Louisiana territory
Nullification
To void any federal law they deemed unconstitutional
Uncle toms cabin
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. A book about the problems of slavery and the treatment of human beings as property
Declarations of sentiments
A document from the Seneca falls convention. Passed womens suffrage rights
Manifest destiny
Westward expansion of the us was not only inevitable but a god given right
John brown
An abolitionist who led a raid on an arsenal at harpers ferry hoping to arm and state a slave revolt
Fredrick Douglass
A former slave and abolitionist
Harriet Tubman
A former slave and leader of the underground railroad
Andrew Jackson
A common man who became the 7th president of the us. Offer associated with the trail of tears
