Chapter 14

Free-Soil Party

A political party that was designed to keep slavery out of the territories and states

Compromise of 1850

Prevented the Union from falling apart

Pony Express

A mail service delivered by horseback riders

Fugitive Slave Act

An act where enforcing greater acts on runaways

Federal Marshalls

Law enforcers who worked for the U.S. government

Stephen A. Douglas

A senator from Illnois

Popular Sovereignty

Allowing people to decided an issue by voting

Kansas-Nebraska Act

A compromise act that allowed for popular sovereignty on the issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska

John Brown

An anti-slavery activist who murdered people who were pro-slavery

Republican Party

Anti-slavery political party founded in 1854

james buchanan

15th president U.S. President 1857-1861

Dred Scott

A slave who was taken by his master to a free state. His supporters sued for his freedom

Roger Taney

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who issued the Dred Scott decision

Harpers Ferry

Location where John Brown led an attack of antislavery forces to seize weapons at a U.S. Army General

John Breckinridge

Chosen by Southern Democrats as nominee for President in 1860

Stephen Douglas

Chosen by Northern Democrats as nominee for President in 1860

John Bell

Unionist candidate for president in 1860

Unionists

A political party that sought to choose a Presidential candidate that would appeal to both northerners and southerners

Seceding

To formally withdraw from the Union

Confederacy

Name given to the southern states that seceded from the U.S.

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States of America

Crittenden Plan

A compromise plan on the issue of slavery in 1861. It was an effort to keep the southern states from secceding

Fort Sumer

An army fort in South Carolina. Location of the first fighting of the Civil War

Garrison

A defense force

Dred Scott Decision

Ruling by the US Supreme Court that said dred Scott would remain as a slave

Racism

The belief that one race is superior than others

Segregation

Separation of people based by race