Chapter 15 8th grade ss
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 president | What did Franklin Pierce become in 1853? |
| Texas | The main issue in the election of 1844 was the annexation of _________________________. |
| Dred Scott case | What Supreme Court decision divided the nation even more? |
| John Crittenden | Who was the senator from Kentucky who tried to save the Union by proposing a last-minute compromise? |
| Roger B. Taney | Ruled on Dred Scott decision |
| Abraham Lincoln | Nominated for and elected president in 1860 as Republican |
| American | Political party also called the "Know-Nothings". |
| Fort sumter | first attack of the Civil War |
| John Brown | violent abolitionist |
| States' rights | Southerners justified secession with the theory of ___________________. |
| Free-Soil | The Party that endorsed Wilmot Proviso. |
| Slavery | The main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debate. |
| Henry Clay | Proposed Missouri Compromise. |
| Dred Scott | Former slave who sued for his freedom when his owner died. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | A person could be fined up to $1,000 or be imprisoned for breaking the law as stated in the ____________. |
| Zachary Taylor | Won the 1848 presidential election. |
| Kansas | The first place to shed blood in a civil war over slavery. |
| Popular sovereignty | What Stephen A. Douglad proposed letting the people decide about slavery. |
| John C. Calhoun | Was not a presidential candidate in 1860. |
| Stephen A. Douglas | Opponent of Abraham Lincoln. |
| Confederacy | Formed on Feb. 4, 1861 |
| Republican | Party that was formed by Whigs, antislavery Democrats, and others. |
| Jefferson Davis | Person who was chosen to be president of the South when they seceded. |
| Wilmot Proviso | The plan specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico. |
| The Freeport Doctorine | Douglas's stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders; rights that it came to be known as. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
| The Missouri Compromise | Henry Clay's compromise became known as this. |
| Illinois | In this congressional election of 1858, the senate race this state was the center of national attention. |
| More anger in the North | Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act. led to this. |
| Freeport Doctrine | Stephen Douglas's response to slavery. |
| John C. Fremont | Nominated for president in 1856 as a Republican. |
| Border Ruffians | People who crossed the Kansas border from Missouri to vote. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | What book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed slavery as a brutal, cruel system in this book. |
| Abraham Lincoln | The 1860 presidential candidate whose name did not appear on the ballot in most Southern states.n. |
| Southern votes | In the election of 1856, the presidency was secured for James Buchanan. |
| Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay's plan. |
| James Buchanan | Won the presidential election of 1856 as a Democrat, claimed he could do nothing about the South seceding. |
| Confederacy | Name given to the Southern states when they seceded. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Law that allowed states to enter the union and vote for or against slavery. |
| senate | The admission of Missouri as a slave state was controversial in the Senate, because it would upset the balance or the _______________________. |
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