US History Chapter 10 – Flashcards with Answers
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Wilmot Proviso
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Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico
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secession
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Voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies.
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Compromise of 1850
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decisions made to help settle the disagreements between free states and slave states
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popular sovereignty
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idea that territories make their own decisions, especially on the issue of slavery
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Stephen A. Douglas
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Senator who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850
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Millard Fillmore
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13th president of the US who supported the Compromise of 1850
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Fugitive Slave Act
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-law that imposed harsh punishment for escaped slaves and for anyone who helped them
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personal liberty laws
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laws that banned the imprisonment of escaped slaves and also guaranteed that escaped slaves would have jury trials.
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Underground Railroad
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network of hiding places and volunteers that hid fugitive slaves heading north to freedom. (Harriet Tubman)
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Harriet Tubman
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an escaped slave who was a leader of the Underground Railroad
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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a novel about the horrors of slavery
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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law that split Nebraska into Nebraska and Kansas, and each state was allowed popular sovereignty (whether or not they wanted slavery).
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John Brown
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opponent of slavery that led a raid (Bleeding Kansas) killing 5 proslavery people
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Bleeding Kansas
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nickname given to the territory because of the bloody violence there
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Franklin Pierce
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14th US president
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Nativism
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favoring native-born people over immigrants
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Know-Nothing Party
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political party formed by nativists to stop the influence of immigrants
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Free-Soil Party
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-political party opposed extending slavery in the territories.
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Republican Party
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political party formed in 1854 opposing the extension of slavery in the territories
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Horace Greeley
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newspaper editor who founded/supported the Republicans
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John C. Fremont
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1st Republican presidential candidate
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James Buchanan
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15th US president
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Dred Scott
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slave who briefly resided with his owner in a free state. He claimed that this made him a free man
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Roger B. Taney
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In Dred Scott v. Sanford, this Chief Justice ruled that being in a free state did not make a slave free because slaves were considered property.
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Abraham Lincoln
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16th US president-President who opposed slavery and popular sovereignty
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Lincoln-Douglas debates
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topic of debates was slavery in the territories
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Freeport Doctrine
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idea that any territory could ban slavery by refusing to pass laws supporting it.
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Harpers Ferry
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location of the federal arsenal raided by John Brown to get guns to slaves
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Confederacy
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Confederate States of America, formed by the Southern States that seceded from the Union
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Jefferson Davis
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President of the Confederate States of America
