History exam 1-20
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20 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Compromise of 1850 | allowed California to be admitted to the Union as a free state and allowed voters in Utah and New Mexico territories decide about slavery, NOT supported by John C. Calhoun |
| Popular Sovereignty | the residents of a territory had the right to vote for or against slavery |
| Personal Liberty Laws | forbidding the imprisonment of runaway slaves |
| Nativism | favoring of American-born people over foreign-born and was based on feelings of mistrust directed toward the increasing number of immigrants and Catholics |
| Dred Scott decision | congress could not forbid slavery in any territory because it would interfere with a slaveholder's right to own property, lt declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, and pleased southerners |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | repealed the Missouri Compromise and would allow popular sovereignty in the territories above 36'30' |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | described to Northerners what life was like for Southern slaves, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Abolition | a complete doing away with |
| Stephen Douglas | proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act that sparked bitter debate in Congress |
| John Brown | triggered dozens of violent incidents and led to Bleeding Kansas, |
| William Lloyd Garrison | publisher of the Liberator, first white Americans to demand an immediate end to slavery |
| Roger Taney | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, handed down the decision stating that people of African decent had no rights |
| Harriet Tubman | served as a conductor on the Underground Railroad and helped over 300 slaves to freedom |
| Secession | the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union |
| Nat Turner | lead a violent slave revolt |
| Southern dependence on slavery... | mostly rural and plantations |
| Wilmot Proviso | proposed slavery should be banned from all of the territories won from Mexico |
| Henry Clay's primary purpose in offering the Compromise of 1850... | to avoid a civil war over the issue of slavery |
| Alvin York | killed 25 Germans, silenced 35 enemy machine guns, and, with 6 other soldiers, captured 132 prisoners |
| Armistice | November 11, 1918, Germany agreed to this, that ended the war |
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