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| 1172319898 | popular sovereignty | when the people who lived in the territory voted on wheither or not there would be slavery in that colony | 1 | |
| 1172319899 | free soil party | was against slavery and for federal aid for internal improvements and free government homestead for settlers, forshadowed the emergence of the republican party | 2 | |
| 1172319900 | Sutters mill | the place in California where gold was discovered, setting off the gold rush | 3 | |
| 1172319901 | Underground railroad | a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada | 4 | |
| 1172319902 | seventh of march speech | Webster's last great speech to the US Senate which called upon his fellow senators to give their full support to the Compromise of 1850 | 5 | |
| 1172319903 | William H Seward | senator of NY; antislavery and argued that God's moral law was higher than the constitution | 6 | |
| 1172319904 | compromise of 1850 | Forestalled the Civil War by instating the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and instating popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession, supported by Clay, Webster and Douglas | 7 | |
| 1172319905 | Fugitive slave law of 1850 | came from the Compromise of 1850; paid federal commissioners were appointed and given authority to issue warrants, gather, posses and force citizens to help catch runaway slaves; the slaves could not testify inthier own behalf, "Man-Stealing Law". shocked moderates into being antislaveryites | 8 | |
| 1172319906 | personal liberty laws | Laws passed by Northern states forbidding the imprisonment of escaped slaves, angered Southerners | 9 | |
| 1172319907 | Frank Pierce | Democrat candidate in 1852, prossouthern northerner won the election | 10 | |
| 1172319908 | Kansas Nebraska Act | This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were proslavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. This began guerrilla warfare. | 11 | |
| 1172319909 | Millard Filmore | In 1850, President Taylor died suddenly and Vice President Millard Fillmore took the presidency. President Fillmore signed the compromise of 1850 | 12 | |
| 1172319910 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | written by harriet beecher stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict. made the issue more real, people could understand the suffering of slaves | 13 | |
| 1172319911 | Commondore Perry | forced Japan to end it's isolation and open up it's ports to the US | 14 | |
| 1172319912 | Bleeding Kansas | A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent. | 15 | |
| 1172319913 | Senator Charles Sumner | gave a speech against slavery in congress, was later beat by Preston Brooks, a southern senator, showed the animosity between North and South | 16 | |
| 1172319914 | Kansas border ruffians | proslavery Missourians who came to Kansas to vote, and attack the antislavery forces | 17 | |
| 1172319915 | John Brown | An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves, was hung in Harpers Ferry after capturing an Armory | 18 | |
| 1172319916 | Lecompton connstitution | kansas connstitution that allowed the people to vote for slavery, or no slavery (expansion, slaveholders already in kansas would be protected by law) | 19 | |
| 1172319917 | Know Nothing Party | Secret Nativist political party that opposed Immigration during the 1840's and early 1850's. Officially called the American Party, nativist and protestant | 20 | |
| 1172319918 | Dred Scott decision | Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that Scott had no right to sue in federal court because african americans were not citizens; slaves were property and the property rights of their owners were protected in all states; congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in any territory, and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional; slavery supporters rejoiced antislavery peole were stunned | 21 | |
| 1172319919 | panic of 1857 | Economic downturn caused by overspeculation of western lands, railroads, gold in California, grain. Mostly affected northerners, who called for higher tariffs and free homesteads | 22 | |
| 1172319920 | Lincoln Douglas debates | 1858 Senate Debate, Lincoln forced Douglas to debate issue of slavery, Douglas supported pop-sovereignty, Lincoln asserted that slavery should not spread to territories, Lincoln emerged as strong Republican candidate | 23 | |
| 1172319921 | Crittenden compromise | 1860 - attempt to prevent Civil War by Senator Crittenden, offered a Constitutional amendment recognizing slavery in the territories south of the 36º30' line, noninterference by Congress with existing slavery, and compensation to the owners of fugitive slaves - defeated by Republicans | 24 | |
| 1172319922 | Fort Sumter | Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War | 25 | |
| 1172319923 | Walker Tariff | A tariff for revenue bill that reduced that rates of the Tariff of 1842 from 32% to 25%. | 26 | |
| 1172319924 | American colonization society | A Society that thought slavery was bad. They would buy land in Africa and get free blacks to move there. One of these such colonies was made into what now is Liberia. Most sponsors just wanted to get blacks out of their country. | 27 | |
| 1172319925 | Webster Ashburton treaty | Result of Arostook war, established Maine's northern border and boundaries of Great Lake states | 28 | |
| 1172319926 | Aroostook war | The result of the conflict over The Caroline ship, which consisted of angry Americans and Canadians, mostly lumberjacks, began moving into the disputed Aroostook River region, causing a violent brawl. | 29 | |
| 1172319927 | the Grimke sisters | Angelina and Sarah. Daughters of a South Carolina slave owner, they toured throughout the Northeast to campaign for the abolition of slavery | 30 | |
| 1172319928 | Prigg vs PA | declared unconstitutional all fugitive slave laws enacted by the states on the ground that the federal law provided the exclusive remedy for the return of runaway slaves. | 31 | |
| 1172319929 | Free soil party | Formed in 1847 - 1848, dedicated to opposing slavery in newly acquired territories such as Oregon and ceded Mexican territory. | 32 | |
| 1172319930 | Stephen Douglas | Senator from Illinois, author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Freeport Doctrine, argues in favor of popular sovereignty | 33 | |
| 1172319931 | Freeport doctrine | 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. | 34 |
