The Union in Peril (ch.10) Flashcards
Secession
The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
Compromise of 1850
Developed by Henry Clay in hope of settling all wuestions in controversy between the free and slave states, growing out of the subject of slavery.
Popular Sovereignty
The right of residents of the territory to vote for or against slavery.
Stephen Douglas
Picked up the pro-compromise reins after Clay left because the Senate rejected his proposed Compromise. Reintroduced each resolution one at a time so that each measure could be voted on individually.
Fugitive Slave Act
Component of the Compromise that stated the alleged fugitives were not entitled to a trial by jury, nor could they testify of their own behalf. All that was required to have a slave returned was a statement by a slave owner.
Harriet Tubman
One of the most famous conductors of the Underground Railroad. She nor the slaves she helped ever got caught. Became an ardent speaker for abolition.
John Brown
Abolitionist that lead his followers and killed five men from their beds of Pottawatomie Creek, and killed them. Became known as the Pottawatomie Massacre.
Dred Scott
Tried to gain his freedom in court after his owner died, but argued that they had lived in a free state, which made him a free man. Set off even more controversy over slavery, and Opponents of slavery now relied on the Republican Party.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Became law in May 1854, divided wenstern area into two territories, Nebraske in the North and Kansas in the south. It would repeal the Missouri Compromise and establish popular sovereignty in both territories.
Economic differences between the north and south in the 1850s.
The south supported slavery and wanted it to spread; most northerners were abolitionists that wanted to end slavery. North wa very industrialized, south consisted of plantations and small farms.
Major terms of the Compromise of 1850.
California admitted as a free state, Utah and New Mexico territories decide about slavery, Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute resolved, sale of slaves banned in the District of Columbia, Fugitive slave Act required people in free states to help capture and return escaped slaves.
The impact Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe had on antislavery attitudes in the north.
Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, increasing northern abolitionists protests against the fugitive slave act. Tubman helped 300 slaves to freedom when she was a conductor of the Underground railroad.
The basic provisions and results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Nebraska would be free in the north, Kansas would be slave in the south. Led to violence between the people and a fight for who would gain control over the territory.
