social studies chapter 16

fugitive

a person who runs away

martyr

a person who dies for a cause

states rights

southern states used this idea to separate from the union

secede

formal withdrawl

civil war

a war between citizens of the same country or armed conflict

arsenal

a storage site used to hold weapons

republican party

anti-slavery whigs + democrats + free soilers

36 30 north latitude

the line that marked the division between free and slave states

wilmot proviso

banning slavery from any states acquired from mexico

popular sovereignty

Stephen Douglas proposed this an an alternative to the Missouri comprimize

border ruffians

pro-slavery people who crossed the Kansas border to vote

Kansas

pro-slavery and anti-slavery governments coexisted

fugitive slave act

enforcement angered people of the north

Missouri comprimise

created to balance slave and free states

14th amendment

born in the USA you are a citezen

slavery (and the democratic party)

division in the democratic party (north and south)

fort Sumter

the attack that started the civil war

John Brown

Violent abolitionist - Led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

James Buchanan

Democrat who won the election of 1856

Roger B Taney

Wrote the Dred Scott decision

Lincoln-Douglas

Debates main topic was slavery

Jeffreson Davis

The first president of the Confederate States of America