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Chapter 15

Question: what is popular sovereignty?
Answer: The idea that political power belongs to the people.

Question: what is Wilmot Proviso?


Answer: A document stating that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any party of [the] territory."

Question: what is sectionalism?


Answer: Favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country

Question: What is Free-Soil Party?
Answer: antislavery northerners formed a new party which supported the Wilmot Proviso.

 


Question: What is secede?
Answer: formally withdraw from the Union.



Question: Who was Franklin Pierce?
Answer: Franklin Pierce was the 14th President who frustrated delegates at the Democratic National Convention

Question: What was the Pottawatomie Massacre?
Answer: Brown and his men killed five pro-slavery men in Kansas.



Question: What did Charles Summer do?
Answer: Charles Summer was the senator of Massachusetts who criticized pro-slavery people in Kansas. 

Question: What did Stephen Douglas support?
Answer: Stephen Douglas supported the idea of building a railroad to the Pacific Ocean.  

Question: what is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
Answer: a plan that would divide the remainder of Louisiana Purchase into two territories Kansas and Nebraska and allow the people in each territory to decide on the question of slavery.

Question: what is the Republican Party?
Answer: A political party united against the spread of slavery in the west.

Question: What is the Lincoln Douglas debates?
Answer: Lincoln challenged Douglas which was historic.

Question: what is the Free-port Doctrine?
Answer: This notion that the police would enforce the voters decision in the Dred Scott case became well know as the free port doctrine.

Question: Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States who was killed in a theater by a shot in the head by a guy.

Question: Who was Roger B.Taney?
Answer: he was the Supreme court chief Justice

Question: what is John Brown Raid?


Answer: began when he and his men took over the arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion.

Question: what is the constitutional Union Party
Answer: Recognized "no political principals other than the Constitution of the country, the Union of the states and the enforcement of the laws.

Question: what is the Confederate States Of America?
Answer: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas also seceded to form the Confederate States of America also called the confederacy.

Question: who was Jefferson Davis?
Answer: Jefferson Davis was the first president and only person who became president of the confederate states of america.

Question: who was John j. Crittended


Answer: John J. Crittended was a political was a American politician from United states of america Kentucky.

Question: What was the compromise of 1850
Answer: California was able to enter the Union as a free state. The rest of the Mexican Cession was divided into two territories Utah and New Mexico where the question of whether to allow slavery would be decided y popular sovereignty

Question: Who was Anthony Burns?
Answer: A fugitive slave from Virginia, who was arrested in Boston

Question: Who organized the Fugitive slave convention?
Answer: Gerrit Smith

Question: Who spoke to the crowd in the fugitive slave convention?
Answer: Frederick Douglass spoke o the crowd

Question: Who is Uncle Toms's Cabin?
Answer: The antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe