Chp 15
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Republican party | Antislavery political party that formed in the 1850s |
| Kohn C. Fremomt | Republican party candidate in the 1856 presedential election |
| James Buchanen | 15th president |
| Dred Scott vs Sanford | Court case that extended the rights of slaveholders and limited legal efforts to challenge slavery |
| Roger B. Taney | Chief Justice of the Supreme court who wrote the lead opinion in the Dred Scott case |
| Abraham Lincoln | Illinios Republican candidate for the US senate in 1858 |
| Harpers Ferry | Location of US arsenal in Virginia which was raided by John Brown |
| Platform | A statement of beliefs |
| Secede | To formally withdraw from the Union |
| Confederate states of America | Confederation formed by the seceded Southern states |
| Jefferson Davis | Presided of the Confederacy |
| Crittenden Plan | Compromise plan to prevent seccession |
| Arsenal | A place where weapons are stored |
| Boycott | To refuse to be apart of |
| Wilmot Proviso | A bill that proposed to ban slavery in many territories |
| Free Soil party | A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery |
| Henry Clay | US senator from Kentucky who proposed the Compromise of 1850 |
| Daniel Webster | US senator from Massachusetts who supported the Compromise of 1850 |
| Stephen Douglass | US senator from Illinois who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850 |
| Compromise of 1850 | Effort by Vongress to settle the issue of slavery in the territories that arose when California was admitted as a free state |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of the anti slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Uncle Toms Cabin | Antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Fugitive Slave act | Law that helped slave holders recapture runaway slaves |
| Popular sovereignty | A system where residents vote to decide an issue |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | Law that split the Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska and allowed people to vote on slavery in these territories |
| John Brown | An extreme abolitionist |
| Execute | To put to death |
| Fugitive | A person who is running away |
| Racist | Having prejudice based on a race |
| Resident | A person who lives in a particular place |
| Sovereign | Having supreme authority |
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