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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 missouri compromise | Admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state; all land north of 36 30 in the LA Territory free and all land south (2 words)slave |
| simon legree | Arch villain in UNCLE TOM |
| fortsumter | Site in South Carolina where the first shots of the Civil War were fired (2 words) |
| martyr | person who dies for a great cause |
| kansas nebraska act | Organized territories west of Missouri and Iowa as Kansas and Nebraska; power of popular sovereignty(concerning slavery) given to people of Kansas (3 words) |
| republican | Lincoln's political party |
| abstain | to not cast a vote |
| confederacy | Name for the southern states that seceded |
| compromise of 1850 | Admitted CA as a free state, abolished the slave trade in DC, and pushed for a stricter fugitive slave law (3 words) |
| arsenal | Storage place for guns and ammunition |
| border ruffians | Missourians who crossed over into Kansas just to vote in their election to determine the status of slavery in the territory (2 words) |
| fugitive | runaway from the law |
| taylor | President elected in 1848; Mexican War h |
| john brown | Abolitionist responsible for the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre and raid at Harpers Ferry |
| robert e lee | Marine Colonel who captured John Brown |
| taney | Supreme Court Chief Justice who issued the Dred Scott decision |
| henry clay | Author of the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850 |
| bleeding kansas | Term used to describe the violence in Kansas after passage of the K-N Act (2 words) |
| dred scott | Slave who sued for his freedom in the federal courts (2 words) |
| underground railroad | Network of free African Americans and whites that helped runaway slaves escape into freedom (2 words) |
| buchanan | President elected in 1856 |
| fugitive slave act | Required all citizens of the country to help catch runaway slaves (3 words) |
| civil war | Conflict between citizens in the same country (2 words) |
| california | Admitted as a free state by the Compromise of 1850 |
| washington | Slave trade prohibited here according to Compromise of 1850 |
| secession | Withdrawal from the Union of the United States |
| bell | Constitutional Union party candidate in 1860 from Tennessee; |
| wilmotproviso | Congressional proposal which stated that slavery would be prohibited in any lands acquired from the Mexican War (2 words) |
| harriet b stowe | author of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN |
| freeport doctrine | Stephen Douglas' claims that people could exclude slavery anywhere if the people simply refuse to pass laws protecting slaveholders' rights( 2 words) |
| douglas | Senator from Illinois who proposed the K-N Act; |
| breckinridge | Southern Democrats' candidate for President in 1860 from the great state of KY |
| davis | president of the confederacy |
| south carolina | State where first shots of Civil War were fired |
| popular sovereignty | Idea that people hold the final authority in government; allowing people to decide or vote on an issue; part of the K-N Act (2 words) |
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