Penn Foster American History Lesson 3 – Flashcards
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Wilmot Poviso
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-A law stating that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any lands won from Mexico" -The Southerners angrily denounced it.
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Free Soil Party
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-Promised "Free soil, Free speech, Free Labour & Free men" -Main goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories.
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Popular Sovereignty
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-A policy stating that voters in a territory-not congress- should decide whether or not to allow slavery there.
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Secede
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-To break away
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Compromise of 1850
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-A legislation based on clays proposals adopted by senate.
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Fugitve Slave act
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-Added stringent amendments to the earlier law, including the requirements that private citizens assist with apprehending runaway slaves.
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Why did California's application for statehood cause a crisis>
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-If California joined the union as a free state, more free states than slave states would be represented in Congress
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Personal liberty laws
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-Nullified the fugitive slave act and allowed the state to arrest slave catchers kidnapping
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Underground railroad
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-A loosely organized network to hide runaway slaves.
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Harriet Tubman
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- A Maryland born fugitive slave, led her people out of bondage.
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Harriet Beacher Stowe
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-Publisher of uncle toms cabin. -Published in 1832. -The book is a personal and powerful condemnation of slavery.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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-A bill that said Kansas would became a slave state & Nebraska would be free.
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Bleeding Kansas
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-A series of violent out breaks in 1856 in Lawrence, Kansas.
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John Brown
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-A new York Abolitionist.
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How did the kansas- Nebraska Act unto the Missouri Compromise?
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act stated that western territories could decide whether to allow slavery, including those already designated as free in the Missouri Compromise.
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Know-Nothings
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-Given their nickname because the members would respond with "I know nothing" when questioned. -They were opposed to immigration, joined by Antislavery Whigs & took a proslavery platform in 1856.
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Rupublican Party
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-Were opposed to slavery. -Opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska act.
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Roger B. Taney
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- Supreme court chief justice
