APUSH Chapter 19 Vocabulary
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mr barberree ch 19
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Lecompton | name the 1857 Kansas constitution which made the North-South conflict worse. |
| Panic of 1857 | the slogan "Bread or Death," 5,000 business failures, and high unemployment were factors in this financial crisis. |
| Beecher's Bibles | many Kansas pioneers of the 1850s carried the deadly new breech loading Sharps rifles named after the prominent clergyman who helped raise the money to buy them. |
| nationalism | the force in 1860 that was at work in Italy, Germany, and Poland that was also at work in the South. |
| delegates from the cotton states | the group that walked out of the Charleston Democratic party nominating convention in 1860. |
| Harpers Ferry, Virginia | in October 1859, John Brown seized this federal arsenal. |
| James Buchanan | the president who hopelessly divided the only national party left in 1857 with his weak stand on the Kansas constitution. |
| Abraham Lincoln | the winner of the 1860 election with a minority of the popular vote but 180 of 303 electoral votes. |
| John J. Crittenden | the Kentucky senator who proposed Constitutional amendments in December 1860 to try to prevent secession and war. |
| Jefferson Davis | the Mississippi senator and West Pointer chosen as president of the Confederacy. |
| self-determination | the principle of the Declaration of Independence which seemed in 1860 to apply to the South and top justify secession. |
| Stephen A. Douglas | the northern senator who sacrificed possible support by pushing for a fair constitution for Kansas. |
| Freeport Doctrine | Stephen Douglas's position that popular sovereignty took precedence over the Dred Scott decision was given this name. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | dismayed by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, this author was determined to awaken the North to the wickedness of slavery. |
| John C. Fremont | the Republican party's first chance at the presidency was in 1856 when they nominated this man. |
| Homestead Act of 1860 | the push in the 1850s for free land for people willing to work it and develop it themselves resulted in this legislation. |
| The Impending Crisis of the South | the book written in 1857 by Hinton R. Helper in which he attempted to prove that the non-slaveholding whites were the ones who suffered most from slavery. |
| Know-Nothing | the common name for the anti-foreign, nativist American party that nominated Millard Fillmore for president in 1856. |
| Lawrence | tensions reached a breaking point in 1856 in Kansas when a group of pro-slavery raiders burned this town. |
| John Bell | the Constitutional Union party, fearing for the union in 1860, nominated this man for president. |
| 1857 | surpluses from tariff revenues in the 1850s resulted in lower duties in the tariff of this year. |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | the series of political events that have historical significance that occurred during the Illinois senatorial election of 1858. |
| Preston "Bully" Brooks | the cane-wielding House member who attacked an abolitionist senator in 1856. |
| New England Emigrant Aid Company | the most famous of the anti-slavery organizations which sent 2,000 pioneers to Kansas in 1854 to forestall it from becoming a slave state. |
| Pottawatomie Creek | the Kansas problem became worse in 1856 when a band of abolitionists butchered five men who were allegedly proslaveryites here. |
| Republican | the political party whose 1860 platform called for free soil, non-extension of slavery, protective tariffs, a Pacific railroad, and publicly funded internal improvements. |
| Dred Scott | the 1857 Supreme Court case that ruled that Congress had no powers to ban slavery from the territories. |
| James Buchanan | the winner of the 1856 presidential election. |
| South Carolina | The state that voted unanimously to secede during a special convention in December 1860 |
| John C. Breckenridge | the man nominated for president in 1860 by the southern Democrats. |
| Charles Sumner | the Massachusetts abolitionist senator who was beaten by a came-wielding House member (Preston Brooks) in 1856. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | no other novel in American history can be compared with this as a political force. To millions it made slavery appear almost as evil as it really was. |
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