Test 1 Terms Flashcards
Missouri compromise
Allowing slavery in Missouri and Maine as free
Wilmont Proviso
Banned slavery in land won from Mexican War
Compromise of 1850
Calif was allowed to be free
Led to the Fugitive Slave Act
Made territory of New Mexica and Utah open to slavery
Kansas Nebraska Act
Kansas and Nebraska would vote if they want slavery. South sent in ppl to vote illegally and they won the vote. The North sent in people and then there were two govs etc.
Henry Clay
A senator
The Great Compromiser
Old
Wanted N and S to reach an agreement
John C. Calhoun
Senator
From SC
Would tell Clay the souths answer to his compromise
Dying so Senator James Madon said the speech
Refused to compromise
Wanted fug. Slave law
Said if agreement cant be reached, S will seceed
Stephen Douglas
Took over for Clay
Clay was sick
Guided Compromise of 1850 through Congress
John Brown
Was mad at South
Was an abolitionist
Killed 6 men in Kansas
Popular soverienghty
Each place will vote abt slavery
Abolitionism
No slavery
Free soilers
Diff from Abolitionists
No slavery in the West
Sectionalism
When s/o is loyal to one part of of a group and not the other
Secession
When a part of a country pulls out
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin
The Little Woman Who Started This War
