Vocab Flashcards
The person who suggested Admitting Missouri as a slave state and main as a free state
Henry clay
Kept the number of slave and free states equal
Missouri compromise
The law that southerners angrily opposed because the congress had no right to ban slavery in the west
Wilmot proviso
The right of people to create there own government
Popular sovereignty
Democrats and wigs formed this party in which Its main goal was to keep slavery out of western territories
Free-soil party
Remove themselves
Secede
Worked with Henry Clay to pass the compromise tariff of 1833, but now opposes it
John c. Calhoun
African Americans who fled the country
Fudgitives
Supported clays plea to save the union
Daniel Webster
War between people of the same country
Civil war
Henry clays plan
Compromise of 1850
Required all citizens trying to catch fugitives
Fugitive slave act
Douglases bill
Kansas-Nebraska act
Proslavery bans across the boarder
Boarder ruffians
Warfare in witch small military groups use surprise attacks and other methods
Guerrilla warefare
A legal case brought to settle a dispute between people or groups
Lawsuit
The case reached to court about a slaves owner dieing and living in a free state
Dread Scott v. Sanford
A group of free soilers, northern democrats, and antislavery whigs that formed this in witch its main goal was to keep the slavery out of the western territories
Republican Party
Gun warehouse
Arsenal
Action against ones country
Treason
Someone willing to give up there life for their beliefs
Martyrs
One that could not be changed
Unamendable
First president of the confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware
Border states
