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| Divided congress along regional lines. Heightened tensions between North & South by introducing an amendment to a military. |
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| The formal withdrawl of a state from the union. :The south broke from the north & formed confeterate states of america. (Secession) |
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| was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the Slave States of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). |
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| The right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery-appealed to both North & South. |
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| Of illinois picked up the pro-compromise reins. He made the compromise happen. |
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| Made it clear that he supported the compromise. Embraced the compromise as the "final settlement" of the question of sleavery & sectional differences. |
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| A component of the compromise of 1850, many people were surprised by the harsh terms of the act. |
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| Forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and gauranteed that they would have jury trials. |
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| African Americans and white abolitionists developed a secret network of people who would, at great risk to themselves, aid fugitive slaves in their escape. This network became known as the underground railroad. |
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| Born a slave in 1820 or 1821. Young girl that suffered a severe head injury when a plantation overseer hit her with a lead weight. |
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| 1852, Ardent abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
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| A novel, became an instant best seller. more than a million copies had sold by the middle of 1853. Delivered a message that slavery was not just a political contestm but also a great moral struggle. |
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| 1854, Douglas introduced a bill in congress to divide the area into two territories: Nebraska in the north & Kansas in the south. If passed, it would repeal the missouri compromise and establish popular sovereginty for both territories. |
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| An abolitionist described by one historian as "A man made of the stuff of saints". He belived that god has called on him to fight slavery. Him & his followers pulled five men from their beds in the proslavery settlement of pottawatomie creek, hacked off their hands, and stabbed them with broadswords. |
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| A violent battlefield in a civial war. Fled Kansas but left behind men and women who lived with rifles by their sides. |
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was the 14th president of the unitred states(1853–1857) and is the only President from New Hampshire. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" (a Northerner with Southern sympathies) who served in the U.S house of representiatives and the Senate. Pierce took part in the Mexican-American War and became a brigadier general in the army. |
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| The favoring of native-born americans over immigrants, Using secret handshakes, and passwords, members were told to answer questions about their activities by saying "I know nothing" |
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| When members were told to answer questions, about their activities by saying "i know nothing" when nativists formed the American party in 1854, it soon became better known as the know-nothing party |
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| Opposed the extension of slavery into the territories, nominated former democratic president Martin Van Buren. Although the free-soil party failed to win any electoral votes in 1848, it recieved 10 percent of the popular vote. Many northerners were Free-Soilers without being abolitionists. Number of north free-soilers supported laws prohibiting black setlement in their communities. |
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| Was formally organized in jackson, Michigan. one of the Two major contemporary political parties in the U.S, along with the Democratic party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, |
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| Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American Newspaper Editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican party, a reformer, a politician, and an outspoken opponent of slavery |
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| The republican party chose him. The famed "pathfinder" who had mapped the oregon trail and led U.S troops into California during the war with mexico, as their candidate in 1856. |
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| Democratic nominated him. He was northerner but most of his washington friends were southerners. As a minister to great britain he had been out of the country during the disputes over the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. |
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| A slave from missouri. For four years they had lived in free territory in Illnois and Wisconsin. Later returned to Missouri, where scotts owner died. Scott then began a lawsuit to gain his freedom. He claimed that he had become a free person by living in free territory for several years. |
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| Roger Brooke Taney March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the fifth chief justice of the united states, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864. He was the first Roman Catholic to hold that office or sit on the supreme court of the united states. |
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| (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the united states. serving from March 1861 until his assasination in april 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization. |
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| The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas at the second of the Lincoln Douglas debates on August 27, 1858, in Freeport Illinois. Lincoln tried to force Douglas to choose between the principle of popular soverginty proposed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the majority decision of the United states supreme court. |
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| was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern Slave states that had declared their secession from the united states. |
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| was an American statesman and leader of the confederacy during the American Civil war, serving as president for its entire history. |
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