People
President who died after 16 months in office
Who was Zachary Taylor?
This allowed California to become a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This was an important money maker for both the North and the South.
What is cotton?
That they unfairly exaggerated the southerners' treatment of slaves
What did southerners believe about abolitionists.
These were the goals of the Republican Party?
What were:
1. Stand against slavery
2. Repeal the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Law
President from the North who was not against slavery
Who is Franklin Pierce?
This allowed Nebraska to become a territory.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This was a secret escape route to help slaves reach freedom.
What was the Underground Railroad?
Important raw material used by industry in the North
What is cotton?
Northerners feared that Southerners would move west and take their slaves with them.
What is the reason Northerners were against a Southern route for the railroad?
Leader who used newspapers to sway public opinion against slavery
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
This abolished slave trade in the District of Columbia
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This gave the United States the freedom to build a railroad to Southern California
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
helped hide slaves on their journey to freedom
What were conductors?
This person wanted a railroad to pass through Nebraska.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
Vice President who became President in 1850
Who was Millard Fillmore?
This forced people to return runaway slaves to owners
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Slave labor was important on these in the south.
What are plantations?
This was formed by Free Soilers, Northern Whigs, and Whigs.
What is the Republican Party?
Wealthy plantation owners controlled this to try to prevent changes to their way of life.
What are their state governments?
A former slave who helped people use the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Under this, voters in territories could decide to become free states or slave states.
What is popular sovereignty.
These were the homes of people who hid slaves who were escaping on the Underground Railroad.
What were the stations of the Underground Railroad?
If California joined as this, the balance of free states and slave states would be upset.
What is a free state?
This was the U.S. minister to Mexico under President Pierce, who worked out a purchase of land in the Southwest in 1853.
Who was James Gadsden?