Chapter 15 Review
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Brown | Abolitionist leader at the Pottowatomie Creek Massacre. |
| California | The Compromise of 1850 allowed ______ to enter as a free state. |
| Illinois | The Lincoln-Douglas Debates took place in what state? |
| Missouri | The homestate of Dred Scott. |
| popular sovereignty | The idea that political power belongs to the people. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | This law made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed slaves to be arrested in free states. |
| Stowe | Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin". |
| Pierce | He became the 14th President after winning the 1852 election. |
| Fillmore | He became the 13th President after Zachary Taylor died in office. |
| Buchanan | He became the 15th President after winning the 1856 election. |
| Lincoln | He became the 16th President after winning the 1860 election |
| Douglas | He introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act. |
| Kansas | This state was nicknamed "bleeding" as a result of the violence between anti and pro slavery groups. |
| Senate chambers | Where Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner with a cane. |
| Republican | The political party that was united against the spread of slavery in the West. |
| Republican | Political party that Abraham Lincoln was a member of. |
| Taney | Supreme Court Chief Justice in the Dred Scott case. |
| Freeport Doctrine | The notion that the police would enforce the voters' decision if it contradicted the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott Case. |
| 1854 | The year the Kansas-Nebraska Act was signed. |
| Harpers Ferry | The location of a raid in which John Brown and his men took over an arsenal. |
| secession | Formally withdrawing from the Union. |
| South Carolina | The first state to secede from the Union. |
| Confederacy | Another name for the Confederate States of America. |
| Davis | The President of the Confederate States of America. |
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