APUSH american pagent chapters 18 & 19 Flashcards

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