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Flashcards by Christina Vezza, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Christina Vezza
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| Question | Answer |
| Popular Sovereignty | Letting the people in a state vote to see if they will be a free state or a slave state. |
| Missouri Compromise | Maintained balance of power in Congress by admitting Missouri (slave) and Maine (free), banned slavery north of latitude 36º30’ |
| Union | The Northern states and those that did not secede from the US |
| Confederacy | The rebel nation composed of the 11 Southern states that seceded from the US |
| Fugitive Slave Law | Federal laws passed that enforced penalties for those who helped slaves escape |
| Sectionalism | loyalty to a state or region rather than to the whole country |
| Dred Scott Case | Opinion states that black people, whether free or enslaved, are not American citizens |
| Border Ruffians | Pro-slavery activists who went into Kansas to vote to make it a slave state |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Established popular sovereignty in 2 states |
| Bleeding Kansas | Battles between anti and pro-slavery forces in Kansas due to popular sovereignty |
| Civil War | War between citizens of the same nation |
| Abolitionist | Someone who wants to ban slavery |
| John Brown | An abolitionist who fought in Virginia and Kansas to combat pro-slavery forces |
| Martyr | Someone who fights and dies for a noble political cause, such as abolition of slavery |
| Secede | To formally exit or leave a political union |
| Underground Railroad | Network of routes that help slaves escape to freedom in the North |
| Election of 1860 | Abraham Lincoln is elected, he is anti-slavery, causes Confederacy to form after secession |
| Harpers Ferry | John Brown raids a US military armory, attempts to inspire a slave revolt, and is then sentenced to death for treason |
| Free-Soiler | Someone who is against the expansion of slavery into the West |
| Compromise of 1850 | California is admitted as a free state, but other western territories are open to slavery |
| Stephen Douglas | Debates Lincoln, his rival, and wants popular sovereignty |
| Charles Sumner | Senator from Massachusetts opposed the expansion of slavery to Kansas and was beaten by Preston Brooks |
| Preston Brooks | Member of the House from South Carolina. Cousins with Andrew Butler and he beat Charles Sumner with a cain |
| Abe Lincoln | Republican party's nominee and winner of the election of 1860. Opposed the expansion of slavery to the West. |
| Which was the first state to secede? | South Carolina |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Republican in 1860 | Most opposed the expansion of slavery to the West and they also opposed re-opening the slave trade |
| Democrat in 1860 | Most wanted popular sovereignty to decide if slavery should expand to the West |
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