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Chapter 15 All
U.S. History
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8th Grade
03/04/2011

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Wilmot Proviso
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A bill to outlaw slavery (it didn’t pass)
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Free-Soil Party
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A political party that wanted to stop the spread of slavery
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Henry Clay
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Did the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850
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Daniel Webster
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Senator from Massachusetts, spoke for the Compromise
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Stephen A. Douglas
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Senator from Illinois who got the Compromise passed
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Compromise of 1856
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Compromise over the Mexican cession, California would be a free state and the rest of the states would vote what they wanted to be
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Book about slavery that angered north and south
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Law that runaway slaves would be returned
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Popular Sovereignty
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People express themselves through voting
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Kansas and Nebraska would vote whether they were slave or free
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John Brown
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EXTREME abolitionist who chopped off the heads of 5 people who supported slavery, it caused “Bleeding Kansas”
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Republican Party
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Political Party that was the Whig Party, they were against slavery
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John C. Fremont
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First Republican presidential candidate (didn't win)
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James Buchanan
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Democrat who becomes 15th President
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Dred Scott VS. Sanford
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Court case that spread slavery
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Roger B. Taney
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Made court decision about Dred Scott decision
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Abraham Lincoln
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Becomes 16th President, South succeeds because of this
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Harpers Ferry
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U.S. arsenal that John Brown attacks hoping to get slaves to revolt
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Platform
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A statement of beliefs
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Secede
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To break away allegiance
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Confederate States of America
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The states that seceded from the Union
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Jefferson Davis
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President of the Confederacy
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Crittenden Plan
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The last compromise attempt to keep the states together (it didn’t work)
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