American Journey Ch. 15
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Missouri Compromise | Henry Clay added Maine as a free state, Missouri as a slave state, and prohibited slavery north of the 36°30′N latitude line |
| sectionalism | an exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country |
| James K. Polk | Added Texas, New Mexico, and California while a president in 1844 |
| Wilmot Proviso | stated that slavery should be prohibited in any land acquired from Mexico (David Wilmot, PA) not passed |
| John C. Calhoun | (SC) countered the Wilmot Proviso by making a document that stated neither congress or any territorial govt. had this right. (also not passed)` |
| Free Soil Party | "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, Free Men"; endorsed the Wilmot Proviso |
| fugitive | runaway, often referring to runaway slaves |
| secede | to leave |
| Daniel Webster | (MA) gave a speech in support of Clay's 5 part plan, thought it would be most important to preserve the Union |
| Compromise of 1850 | Stephen A. Douglas proposed the Comp. of 1850-- stated that CA would be free, NM would have no restrictions on slavery, the TX/NM border dispute would be settled in favor of NM, the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia, and there would be a stronger fugitive slave law. |
| Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | required all citizens to catch runaway slaves, aiding a runaway could result in fines or imprisonment, some resisted, some tried to catch freed African Americans for $$$ |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | an American Abolitionist |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | a book by Harriet Beecher Stowe against slavery in response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | by Stephen A. Douglas, decided, although they seemed to be free states, to let popular sovereignty decide |
| Popular Sovereignty | allowing people to decide |
| Border Ruffians | pro slavery supporters that traveled in armed groups from Missouri to Kansas |
| John Brown | an abolitionist who used violence against slavery supporters |
| Bleeding Kansas | violence occurring in Kansas |
| Pottawatomie Creek Massacre | a violent massacre in favor of abolitionists during Bleeding Kansas |
| Sumner/Brooks incident | 2 days after Sumner verbally attacks pro slavery in Kansas, Brooks hits Sumner repeatedly with his cane |
| Republican Party | new party formed by anti slavery Whigs and Democrats |
| John C. Fremont | Free-Soil Party now has slogan "Free Soil, Free Speech, and Fremont" for the presidential campaign |
| American "Know Nothing" Party | nominated former president Millard Fillmore |
| Dred Scott Case | slave that had lived in 2 free states/territories then moved back to a slave state when his owner dies, wants freedom, sues, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney says that only U.S. citizens can sue, afterwards, old owners sons buy him and free him, he dies 9 months later |
| Roger Taney | Chief Justice who doesn't let Dred Scott be freed |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican challenger against Stephen A. Douglas |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | debates about slavery, in Freeport when Lincoln presses about popular sovereignty and the Freeport Doctrine is Made |
| Freeport Doctrine | Douglas' response to Lincoln's pressing questions |
| Raid on Harper's Ferry | John Brown led 18 men on a raid to the arsenal on Harper's Ferry but was quickly stopped by the townspeople and federal troops. Brown was sentenced to an execution by cause of treason and murder; this caused an uproar in the North |
| martyr | one who dies for a great cause |
| Election of 1860 | Northern Democrats- Stephen Douglas Southern Democrats- John C. Breckinridge Republicans- Abraham Lincoln Lincoln wins by electoral votes although his name was not put on many ballots in Southern states |
| Crittenden Compromise | a plan to protect slavery south of the 36°30′N Latitude line |
| Confederate States of America | the country formed by South Carolina after it secedes in late 1860 |
| Jefferson Davis | a senator from MS, also the president of the Confederate States of America |
| State's Rights | the belief that a state's rights supersede federal rights and laws |
| James Buchanan | Before Lincoln took over the presidency, Buchanan states that the South had no right to secede, but he also had no right to stop them |
| Fort Sumter (SC) | After Lincoln sends an unarmed expedition to Fort Sumter, Jefferson Davis (Confederate States of America President) orders an attack on Fort Sumter |
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