Ch. 10

John Brown

-A NY abolitionist who massacred five pro-slavery settlers in Kansas -Killed by hanging -Born in Connecticut -Tried to capture Harper's Ferry, VA (location of the federal arsenal) -Met with Frederick Douglas to discuss his raid on the federal arsenal -Him and his followers elected five men at Pottawattamie Creek, KA

Republican

-Lincoln's political party -Started run 1854 in Mi to stop the spread of slavery into the territories

Harriet Tubman

-Most infamous person working on the Underground Railroad -A Maryland born slave known as "Black Moses"

Abraham Lincoln

-Said "so this is the little lady who started this big war..." to the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin -Considered slavery evil

Dred Scott

A Missouri slave who sued for his freedom

Republican Party

A group formed in 1854 that opposed slavery

Free-Soil Party

A group whose main goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories (free soil, speech, labor, and men)

Fugitive Slave Law

A law that required the return of runaway slaves to their masters

Uncle Tom's Cabin

A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the evils of slavery in 1852. Over 300,000 copies were sold in the first year.

Wilmot Proviso

A proposed law that prohibited slavery in any lands won from Mexico

Know-Nothings

A secret anti-immigrant group that later became the American Party

Missouri Compromise

An 1860 legislation that was ruled unconstitutional

Stephen Douglas

An Illinois politician who promoted popular sovereignty and the annexation of Texas

Bleeding Sumner

An attack on US senator in the US senate

Underground Railroad

An informal network of abolitionists that helped fugitive slaves

What did "Bleeding Kansas" demonstrate popular sovereignty as?

An unworkable solution for the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.

What did "Bleeding Kansas" demonstrate that popular sovereignty was?

An unworkable solution for the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.

Henry Clay

Author of the Compromise of 1850

After the Dred Scott decision, Congress was powerless to...

Ban slavery anywhere in the U.S.

Why did the Compromise of 1850 not solve the problems created by slavery?

Because the Fugitive Slave Act required all citizens to assist in the capture of escaped slaves.

What was the outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Bleeding Kansas

Cannibals All

Book written by James Fitzhugh was the southern response to the "lies" in Uncle Tom's Cabin

One of the Illinois Senate seats

Both Lincoln and Douglas were running for

What provision did the Compromise of 1850 include?

California would be admitted as a free state.

Four

Candidates in the election of 1860

Topeka and Lecompton

Capitals of Kansas territory

Milk sickness

Cause of death of Lincoln's mother

Stops

Code-word for hiding places on the Railroad

Whig Party

Died out in the mid-1800s

Simon Legree

Evil master in the novel

Why did John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry fail?

Few Americans would join a rebellion organized by Brown.

Robert E. Lee

Helped capture John Brown

Stonewall Jackson

Helped capture John Brown

How did the Ka-Na Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?

It allowed slavery to spread to areas that had been free for more than 30 years.

How did John Brown's raid affect the debate about slavery?

It deepened the division between the North and South.

Why did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 anger northerners?

It required all citizens to support the slave system.

Stephen Douglas

Known as the "Little Giant"

Compromise of 1850

Legislation based on Henry Clay's proposal for concessions by both the North and South

Who was Free-Soil Party's candidate for President?

Martin Van Buren

7

Number of debates between Lincoln and Douglas

Fugitive Slave Law/Act

Part of the compromise forced Americans help catch runaway slaves

How did Uncle Tom's Cabin increase tension between the N and S?

People felt it was lies written about abolitionists.

How was Lincoln's position on slavery different from Douglas's position?

Popular sovereignty

What occurred under the new Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

Popular sovereignty would decide the slave issue in New Mexico.

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States of America

$40,000

Reward for the capture of the leading worker in the Underground Railroad

Lawrence, Kansas

Sacked during Bleeding Kansas

Wisconsin

State where Dred Scott's owner died when he was free

South Carolina

State where the civil war started in

Who proposed the KA-NA Act?

Stephen Douglas

Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Stephen Douglas

What did the Dred Scott decision state?

That slaves were the property of their owners.

Know Nothings

The American party started by the Nativists

Roger B. Taney

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1857

How did Congress try to settle the slavery issue in 1850?

The Compromise of 1850 was passed.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

"Bleeding Kansas"

The characterization of violent outbreaks in 1856 that occurred in and around Lawrence, Kansas

Harpers Ferry

The site where John Brown attempted to seize the federal arsenal

Personal liberties laws

The state statutes that nullified the Fugitive Slave Act

How did northerns show their disapproval of the Fugitive Slave Act?

They passed the personal liberty laws.

What was Lincoln's view on African Americans?

They were entitled to their life, liberty and their pursuit of happiness.

State's Rights

This was the issue, besides slavery, they were concerned about.

Slave trade

This would be abolished in the nation's capital.

What did James Buchanan promise?

To end the agitation over the issue of slavery.

A free state

Under the compromise, CA would come in the union as this type of state

Popular sovereignty

Under the compromise, NM and Utah Territories could use this to decide the slavery issue.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Was a direct of the violence in Kansas

The Border Ruffians

Would ride over the border from Missouri into Kansas and commit acts of violence and intimidation