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