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Chapter 20 in History Alive!
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History
7th Grade
04/29/2009

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Missouri Compromise
Definition

Maine was a free state

missouri was a slave state

everying above the 36'/30' line was free and everything belowl; slavery was allowed

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Wilmot Proviso

Definition
said that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist"
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Compromise of 1850
Definition
  • Admit california as a free state
  • open utah and new mexico to slavery (s)
  • end slavery in washington dc(n)
  • pass strong fugitive slave law (s)
  • passes in september 1850
  • henry clay needed help from danial webster to write the compromise
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Kansas-nebraska Act
Definition
  • douglas's final bill cread 2 new territories; kansas and nebraska
  • northerners were haunted by the vision of slavery
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henry Clay
Definition
  • senator from kentucky
  • creaded missouri compromise
  • his plan ended slave trade in d.c.
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Stephen Douglas
Definition
  • introduced bill to conress
  • wanted to build railroad to california
  • final bill creaded kansas and nebraska
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Charles Sumner
Definition
  • from Massachusetts
  • senator
  • heaped abyuse on many southerners
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Preston brooks
Definition
  • South Carolina representative
  • nephew of Senator Butler
  • attackd Sumner in Senate
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Abraham Lincoln
Definition
  • opposed slavery
  • ran for president in 1858 and 1860
  • from Illinois
  • Lost election of 1860
  • Sworn in as president on March 4, 1861
  • Won election of 1860
  • thought seccession was wrong
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John breckenridge
Definition
  • ran for south democrat in election of 1860
  • beleived slavery should be everywhere in the United States
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John Bell
Definition
  • ran for election of 1860 for Constitutional Union
  • ignored slavery
  • beileved constitution was to be obeyed and the union should stay as a whole
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Definition
  • wrote uncle tom's cabin
  • she turned millions of people in the north against slavery
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John Brown
Definition
  • plotted revenge
  • hacked 5 people from the potowatamie tribe because they were in favor of slavery
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Dred Scott
Definition
  • fought for his rights; to be able to sue in federal court
  • free man from wisconsin
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Free states
Definition
  • California
  • Conneticuit
  • Iowa
  • Indiana
  • Illinois
  • massachusets
  • Maine
  • Michigan
  • new Jersey
  • new york
  • Ohio
  • Pennsylvania
  • Rhode Island
  • Virginia
  • Wisconsin
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Slave States
Definition
  • Arkansas
  • Alabama
  • Delaware
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Kentucky
  • Kansas
  • Louisiana
  • Missouri
  • Mississippi
  • North Carolina
  • South Carolina
  • Tenessee
  • Texas
  • Virginia
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Ft.Sumner
Definition
where the civil war began
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Popular Sovereignty
Definition
the people's choice
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democrats
Definition
someone in favor of democracy
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uncle tom's cabin
Definition
book by harriet beecher stowe, saw vision about a man; slave; who got beat and before his soul slipped out of his body, he whispered to his owner that he forgave him with his soul. turned northerners against slavery
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repulblican
Definition
someone that is in favor of the republican party
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bleeding kansas
Definition
????
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fugitive slave law
Definition
supported by the south north didn't want to enforce it, south felt that it didn't secure them enough
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secede
Definition
to leave the union
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border ruffians
Definition
?????
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the "gag" rule
Definition
outraged abolitionist called it the"gag rule" when congress put their petitions aside
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lincoln-douglas debates
Definition
occoured during the election of 1858
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dred scott vs. sanford
Definition
when dred scott tried to get his freedoms but sanford opposed it
Term
election of 1860
Definition

cannidates

abraham lincoln-republican

john brecknadge-southern democrat

john bell-constitutional union

stephen a. douglas-norhtern democrat

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