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- 3. 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. best known for John Brown's raid in 1859, in which he attempted to use the town and the weapons in its Federal Armory (munitions plant) as the base for a slave revolt, to expand south into the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
- 9. American abolitionist leader. First reaching national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, he was eventually captured and executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry preceding the American Civil War
- 12. enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife, Harriet, and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857
- 15. a law, enacted in 1854, that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slaver
- 17. statutes, passed in nine Northern states in the 1850s, that forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed jury trials for fugitive slaves
- 19. explorer of the Western United States, military officer, and politician. He was a U.S. Senator from California, and in 1856 was the first Republican nominee for President of the United States and founder of the California Republican Party when he was nominated.
- 20. the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union
- 21. politician and lawyer from Illinois. A senator, he was one of two nominees of the badly split Democratic Party for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Republican Abraham Lincoln
- 23. favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people
- 24. American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune
- 25. a law enacted as part of the Compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage
- 26. a name given to the American Party formed in the 1850s to curtail the political influence of immigrants
- 28. 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
- 29. the modern political party that was formed in1854 by opponents of slaver y in the territories
- 30. 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House
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- 1. a best-selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852, portrayed slaver y as a great moral evil.
- 2. a series of legislative measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states
- 4. fifth chief justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death
- 5. American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives before the American Civil War
- 6. a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue
- 8. American abolitionist leader. First reaching national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, he was eventually captured and executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry preceding the American Civil War
- 10. a political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slaver y into U.S. territories.
- 11. American author and abolitionist. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and became best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 13. American lawyer and politician who served as the 15th president of the United States from 1857 to 1861. He previously served as secretary of state from 1845 to 1849 and represented Pennsylvania in both houses of the U.S. Congress
- 14. famous for the Gettysburg Address, abolishing slavery and being one of the four presidents who have been assassinated
- 16. a system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states
- 18. the idea, expressed by Stephen Douglas in 1858, that any territory could exclude slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it
- 22. the Confederate States of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union
- 27. American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad