Chapter 10 vocab

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  1. 2. they were an American author and abolitionist
  2. 3. A former governor of California
  3. 4. Was captured and executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry preceding the American Civil War.
  4. 5. A best selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852, that portrayed as a great moral evil.
  5. 7. The 15th us president?
  6. 10. An enslaved African-American man in the United States who sued for his freedom.
  7. 12. The 14th us president?
  8. 17. The idea, expressed by Stephen Douglas in 1858, that any territory could exclude slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it.
  9. 18. Former senator of the United States.
  10. 19. A law enacted as part of the compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage.
  11. 20. Favoring the interests of native born people over foreign born people.
  12. 23. A political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into U.S. territories.
  13. 24. A system in which the residents vote to decide an issue.
  14. 25. They were an abolitionist and political activist
  15. 28. An American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865?
  16. 29. The fifth chief justice of the United States?
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  1. 1. A name given to the American party, formed in the 1850s to curtail the political influence of immigrants.
  2. 6. The modern political party that was formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories.
  3. 8. Who was the 13th president?
  4. 9. A former United States representative?
  5. 11. A series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
  6. 13. An amendment to an 1846 military appropriations bill, proposing that none of the territory acquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery.
  7. 14. A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states
  8. 15. The 16th us president?
  9. 16. The formal withdrawal of a state from the union.
  10. 21. A town in West Virginia?
  11. 22. Statutes, passed in nine northern states in the 1850s, that forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed jury trials for fugitive slaves.
  12. 26. The name applied to the Kansas Territory in the years before the civil war, when the territory was a battleground between proslavery and antislavery forces.
  13. 27. The confederate states of America, a confederate formed in 1861 by the southern states after their secession from the union.