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Ch. 15 Review
Flashcards for the topics in Chapter 15. Use these to study for the test.
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Social Studies
8th Grade
04/15/2013

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John Brown
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Violent abolitionist who tried to arm slaves to rise up against their slave holders. He would be caught, tried and executed for his crimes.
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Dred Scott
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He was the slave named in a Supreme Court case who wanted his freedom because he lived in a free area. The decision in this case meant that the Constitution supported slavery.
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Fort Sumter
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Fort in South Carolina; first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
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Abraham Lincoln
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ran for presidency in 1860 and won even though his name was not on the ballots in most Southern states; believed slavery was a moral issue; was nationally unknown until the congressional election of 1858
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states' rights
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reason used by Southern states to secede from the Union
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Jefferson Davis
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first president of the Confederate States of America
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas for the Illinois Senate race. The debates usually revolved around the issue of slavery.
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Kansas
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Territory that was filled with fighting whether it was a free or slave state. Two governments were actually established in this state - one proslavery, one antislavery. Blood would be shed in this state over the issue of slavery.
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Missouri Compromise
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Allowing Missouri to be added to the Union as a slave state while Maine is added as a free state. This compromise would maintain the balance of power in the Senate.
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Fugitive Slave Act
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This is a law that required all citizens to help catch runaway enslaved people
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South Carolina
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First state to secede from the Union
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Freeport Doctrine
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Stephen Douglas' plan for each state to have popular sovereignty (decide for themselves whether the state has slavery or not)
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Wilmost Proviso
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Plan that stated that slavery would not be allowed in any territory that was received from Mexico
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Henry Clay
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senator from Kentucky who tried many compromises to save the Union
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