APUSH terms: Franklin, Benjamin-Fugitive Slave Act

free silver

Populist leaders endorsed a demand that the national party only later accepted: "free silver"-the idea of permitting silver to become, along with gold, the basis of the currency so as to expand the money supply

Fugitive Slave Act

a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders; part of the Compromise of 1850

Freeport Doctrine

-not in index??-(used auto-define) Doctrine developed by Stephen Douglas that said the exclusion of slavery in a territory could be determined by the refusal of the voters to enact any laws that would protect slave property. It was unpopular with Southerners, and thus cost him the election.

Freedmen's Bureau

an agency of the army directed by General Oliver O. Howard; it distributed food to millions of former slaves, established schools staffed by missionaries and teachers, and made modest efforts to settle blacks on lands of their own, not a permanent solution-only had authority to operate for one year

French & Indian War

battle between the English, the French, and the Iroquois, on American soil over control of the Ohio River Valley-- English defeated French in 1763; established England as number one world power and began to gradually change attitudes of the colonists toward England for the worse

free soil

during the presidential campaign of 1848, this new party found neither the democratic or whig side appealing in terms of what to do about slavery; drew from existing Liberty Party and the antislavery wings of the Whig and Democratic Parties and endorsed the Wilmot Proviso, to keep slavery where it is but also stop it from spreading to the new lands

Benjamin Franklin

helped Jefferson, along with John Adams, to write the Declaration of Independence; a federalist; voiced support for the education of women