APUSH CH 18 – Flashcards

A network of abolitionists that secretly helped slaves escape to freedom by setting up hiding places and routes to the North. Harriet Tubman is a key person to its success.

1850; Congress requires police in free states to return fugitive slaves to there masters in the south.

The concept that a States people should vote whether to be a slave state or Free

Senator from Illinois who ran for president against Abraham Lincoln. Wrote the Kansas-Nebreaska Act and the Freeport Doctrine

United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)

Formed in 1847 - 1848, dedicated to opposing slavery in newly acquired territories such as Oregon and ceded Mexican territory.

Strip of land in present-day Arizona and New Mexico that was acquired by the U.S. in 1853 for $10 million.

Senator who, originally pro-North, supported the Compromise of 1850 and subsequently lost favor from his constituency

Forestalled the Civil War by instating the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and instating popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession

Would let slavery in Kansas and Nebraska be decided by popular sovereignty

Commodore of the US Navy who opened up Japan with the Treaty of Kanagawa

Whig president who was a Southern slave holder, and war hero (mexican-american war). won the 1848 election. surprisingly did not address the issue of slavery at all on his platform. he died during his term and his vice president was millard fillmore.