Term
| The land received by Mexico after the Mexican War |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| A group of legislators who vote together |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Law that prevented officials from arresting fugitive slaves |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Right of the people in a territory or state to decide whether they become a free or slave state |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Party whose platform included not extending slavery into new territories |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Senator that predicted that the Kansas-Nebraska act would cause trouble |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| New party formed from the old whig party that appeared in the election of 1860 |
|
Definition
| Constitutional Union Party |
|
|
Term
| Party the unintentionally helped the Whigs win in 1848 |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Senator from Illinois that supported popular sovereignty |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Senator from South Carolina who felt that slave owners should be able to take their property with them wherever they went |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| 5 terms of the compromise of 1850 |
|
Definition
1. california becomes free
2. balanced slavery in new territories
3. pays Texas to end border dispute
4. Slave trade ended in DC
5. New fugitive slave law |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Commodore who helped open trade with Japan |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| This split the democratic party in 4 |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| 3 provisions listed by the Kansas-Nebraska act |
|
Definition
1. midwest territory split into kansas and Nebraska
2. each territory decided by popular sovereignty
3. abolished missouri compromise line |
|
|
Term
| 3 provisions of the the missouri compromise |
|
Definition
1. missouri accepted as slave state
2. maintain balance of free and slave states
3. established slavery line |
|
|
Term
| Prohibited slavery in the territories aquirred by Mexico |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| 4 issues that threatened to break up the union in 1849 |
|
Definition
1. CA upset balance of free and slave
2. border dispute between Texas and New Mexico
3.NM and Utah weren't decided on slavery
4. South wanted better fugitive slave law |
|
|
Term
| Said that Cuba would be sold to the US or the Us would have the right to take it |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Amendment that prohibited further introduction of slaves |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Main issue in the election of 1844 |
|
Definition
|
|
