Key terms, people, and events from Chapter 13 of Alan Brinkley's American History.
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| 8079178165 | Popular Sovereignty | Popularized by Democrat Stephen Douglas, idea that people in a territory should decide for themselves whether they should be slave or free | 0 | |
| 8079178166 | Ostend Manifest | Idea that US should buy Cuba from Spain for $120 million, or go to war for it. Cuba would become a slave state. | 1 | |
| 8079178167 | Free-Soil Party | Prelude to the Republican Party, against the spread of slavery in the Mexican Cession, felt slavery took jobs away from Whites. | 2 | |
| 8079178168 | Conscious Whigs | Members of the respective party that opposed slavery on moral grounds | 3 | |
| 8079178169 | Gadsden Purchase | Area of land in southern AZ and NM, important to the transcontinental RR, under Franklin Pierce's administration | 4 | |
| 8079178170 | Compromise of 1850 | Added CA as a free state, tougher fugitive slave law, popular sovereignty in Mexican Cession | 5 | |
| 8079178171 | Personal Liberty Laws | Passed by many states it the north, denied jails and courts for federal officials trying to capture slaves | 6 | |
| 8079178172 | Fugitive Slave Law | Part of Compromise of 1850, harsher treatment for runaway slaves, North held accountable for helping out runaway slaves | 7 | |
| 8079178173 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | Overturned the MO (1820) Compromise, popular sovereignty established for KS and NB | 8 | |
| 8079178174 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, very popular in the North, focused on slave families being torn apart | 9 | |
| 8079178175 | The Impending Crisis of the South | Banned and burned in the South, this book stated that non-slaveholding Whites were the ones that were hurt by slavery | 10 | |
| 8079178176 | Lawrence, Kansas | Free-soil city that was burned by pro-slavery individuals | 11 | |
| 8079178177 | Pottawatomie Creek | Led by John Brown in Kansas, killed many proslavery individuals in retaliation for Lawrence, KS killings. | 12 | |
| 8079178178 | Lecompton Constitution | People in KS could vote on a Constitution with or without slavery. If slavery was voted down, it would be protected for those already there. | 13 | |
| 8079178179 | Caning of Charles Sumner | Conflict between Northern Senator and S.C. Congressman, showed tensions in Congress between North and South | 14 | |
| 8079178180 | "Fire-Eaters" | Southerners that threatened secession if a Republican were elected president | 15 | |
| 8079178181 | Dred Scott v. Sanford | Supreme Court decision that stated Blacks were not citizens, Congress could not prohibit slavery | 16 | |
| 8079178182 | Freeport Doctrine | Argument by Stephen Douglass that states could, in theory, limit slavery; caused a split in the Democratic Party | 17 | |
| 8079178183 | Harpers Ferry | Desire to start a massive slave rebellion, 7 people killed, led to execution of John Brown, South afraid of future attacks | 18 | |
| 8079178184 | John Brown | Radical abolitionist, responsible for death of many in his desire for abolition. Hated by South, major cause of Civil War. | 19 |
