Ch 15
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 an exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country | What does sectionalism mean? |
| runaways | What is a fugitive? |
| not to cast votes | What does abstain mean? |
| to leave | What does secede mean? |
| James Polk of TN | Who won the presidential election in 1844? |
| Zachary Taylor | In 1848, who did the Whigs choose as their presidential candidate? |
| It preserved the balance between slave and free states in the Senate and brought about a lull in the battle debate in Congress over slavery | What did the Missouri Compromise do? |
| Free-Soil Party | Many antislavery Democrats and Whigs left their battles and joined with members of the Old Liberty to form the |
| Millard Fillmore | Who was president after Zachary Taylor? |
| 1845 | What year did Texas become a state? |
| help catch runaways | What did the Fugitive Slave Act require people to do? |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? |
| show slavery as a cruel and brutal system | What was the topic of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? |
| helped runaways make their way to freedom | What was the "underground railroad"? |
| allowing the people to decide | What is the meaning of popular sovereignty? |
| decide whether they were free or slave states | What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do? |
| armed groups of Missourians | Who were the border ruffians? |
| fervent abolitionist | Who was John Brown? |
| conflict between citizens of the same country | What is a civil war? |
| more than 6000 people | Although there were 1,500 votes who lived in Kansas, how many people in Kansas cast ballots in the Election of 1855? |
| withdrawal from the Union | What does secession mean? |
| West Virginia | What state seceded from Virginia? |
| Abraham Lincoln | Who was the Republican Party candidate for president in the Election of 1860? |
| Would the Union break up | What was the "burning question" in the months before the Election of 1860? |
| South Carolina | What state was the first to secede from the Union in 1860? |
| 40% | What percent of the popular vote did Abraham Lincoln get in the Election of 1860? |
| Confederate States of America | After Southern states seceded, what did the new nation and government call itself? |
| the right to leave from the Union | What did "states' rights" mean to Southern states? |
| Fort Sumter | Where were the first shots fired in the Civil War? |
| Jefferson Davis | Who was the New President of the New Nation in the South? |
| Antislavery Whigs, Democrats, & Free-Soilers | What political groups formed the Republican Party? |
| James Buchanan | Who was the Democratic Party candidate for president in the Election of 1856? |
| Know Nothings | What was another name for the American Party? |
| an enslaved African American bought by an Army doc in Missouri | Who was Dred Scott? |
| still a slave | What was the Supreme Courts' decision of the Dred Scott Case? |
| Stephen Douglas | Who was called the "little giant"? |
| Abraham Lincoln | Who was the Republican candidate for Senator from Illinios in 1858? |
| John Brown | Who led the raid on Harpers Ferry? |
| storage place for weapons and ammunition | What is an arsenal? |
| a person who dies for a great cause | What is a martyr? |
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