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Slavery
Presidents and people
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Millard Fillmore
13th president of the US who supported the Compromise of 1850
100
Kansas Nebraska Act
law that split Nebraska into Nebraska and Kansas, and each state was allowed popular sovereignty (whether or not they wanted slavery).
100
Free soil party
political party opposed extending slavery in the territories.
100
Compromise of 1850
decisions made to help settle the disagreements between free states and slave states
100
Abraham Lincoln
16th US president-President who opposed slavery and popular sovereignty
200
Stephen A. Douglas
Senator who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850
200
Personal Liberty laws
Laws that banned the imprisonment of escaped slaves and also guaranteed that escaped slaves would have jury trials.
200
Republican Party
political party formed in 1854 opposing the extension of slavery in the territories
200
Personal liberty laws
laws that banned the imprisonment of escaped slaves and also guaranteed that escaped slaves would have jury trials.
200
Roger B taney
In Dred Scott v. Sanford, this Chief Justice ruled that being in a free state did not make a slave free because slaves were considered property.
300
Harriet Tubman
an escaped slave who was a leader of the Underground Railroad
300
Fugitive Slave Act
law that imposed harsh punishment for escaped slaves and for anyone who helped them
300
Know Nothing Party
political party formed by nativists to stop the influence of immigrants
300
Republican Party
political party formed in 1854 opposing the extension of slavery in the territories
300
James Buchanan
15th president US.
400
Harriet Beecher Stowe
author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
400
Compromise of 1850
decisions made to help settle the disagreements between free states and slave states
400
Uncle Tom's Cabin
a novel about the horrors of slavery
400
Free Soil party
political party opposed extending slavery in the territories.
400
Jefferfson Davin
President of the Confederate States of America
500
John Brown
opponent of slavery that led a raid (Bleeding Kansas) killing 5 proslavery people
500
Popular Sovereignty
idea that territories make their own decisions, especially on the issue of slavery
500
Secession
Voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies.
500
Dred Scott
slave who briefly resided with his owner in a free state. He claimed that this made him a free man
500
Harpers Ferry
location of the federal arsenal raided by John Brown to get guns to slaves