American Pageant Chapter 18 Vocab Flashcards
Key terms, people, and events from Chapter 18 of the 13th edition of the American Pageant.
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| 1169509477 | Popular Sovereignty | Popularized by Democrat Stephen Douglas, idea that people in a territory should decide for themselves whether they should be slave or free | 1 | |
| 1169509478 | Ostend Manifesto | Idea that US should buy Cuba from Spain for $120 million, or go to war for it. Cuba would become a slave state. | 2 | |
| 1169509479 | Free-Soil Party | Prelude to the Republican Party, against the spread of slavery in the Mexican Cession, felt slavery took jobs away from Whites. | 3 | |
| 1169509480 | Clayton-Bulwer Treaty | America and Britain agreed not to control any future isthmuses in Latin America | 4 | |
| 1169509481 | Conscious Whigs | Members of the respective party that opposed slavery on moral grounds | 5 | |
| 1169509482 | Gadsden Purchase | Area of land in southern AZ and NM, important to the transcontinental RR, under Franklin Pierce's administration | 6 | |
| 1169509483 | Compromise of 1850 | Added CA as a free state, tougher fugitive slave law, popular sovereignty in Mexican Cession | 7 | |
| 1169509484 | Personal Liberty Laws | Passed by many states it the north, denied jails and courts for federal officials trying to capture slaves | 8 | |
| 1169509485 | Fugitive Slave Act | Part of Compromise of 1850, harsher treatment for runaway slaves, North held accountable for helping out runaway slaves | 9 | |
| 1169509486 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | Overturned the MO (1820) Compromise, popular sovereignty established for KS and NB | 10 |