Chapter 10 Vocab

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  1. 4. Former governor of California
  2. 7. The modern political party that was formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories.
  3. 9. Statutes, passed in nine northern states in the 1850s, that forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed jury trials for fugitive slaves.
  4. 10. The idea, expressed by Stephen Douglas in 1858, that any territory could exclude slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it.
  5. 12. A name applied to the Kansas Territory in the years before the civil war, when the territory was a battleground between proslavery and antislavery forces.
  6. 14. A system in which the residents vote to decide an issue.
  7. 16. Favoring the interests of native born people over foreign born people.
  8. 20. A series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
  9. 21. 16th us president?
  10. 22. Fifth chief justice of the United States?
  11. 23. 15th us president?
  12. 24. Town in West Virginia
  13. 26. The confederate states of America, a confederate formed in 1861 by the southern states after their secession from the union.
  14. 27. American author and abolitionist
  15. 28. A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states.
  16. 29. American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
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  1. 1. A best selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852, that portrayed as a great moral evil.
  2. 2. 14th us president
  3. 3. A name given to the American party, formed in the 1850s to curtail the political influence of immigrants.
  4. 5. A political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into U.S. territories.
  5. 6. 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.
  6. 8. Abolitionist and political activist
  7. 11. 13th is president
  8. 13. Former senator of the United States
  9. 15. A law enacted as part of the compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage.
  10. 17. captured and executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry preceding the American Civil War
  11. 18. an enslaved African-American man in the United States who sued for his freedom
  12. 19. former United States representative
  13. 25. The formal withdrawal of a state from the union.