Honors History 10- vocab civil war

Fugitive slave law

required that slaves be returned to their owners even if it was a free state, this hastened the collapse of the national political system

Harriet Tubman

an abolitionist and social activist who escaped slavery and helped rescue slaves. Contributed to the war by leading spy missions and scouting

Free soiler party

platform openly denounced the institution of slavery which formed the now republican party

Underground railroad

the resistance of enslavement through escape and flight, provoked fear in the south prompting the enactment of harsh legislation that eroded the rights of white americans

“Bleeding Kansas”

A series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas territory and to a lesser extent in western Missouri between 1854 and 1859

Know-Nothing Party

a national political movement in the mid 1850s that would later divide over the issue of slavery

Republican Party

one of the 2 major political parties contributed to the war by opposing the expansion of slavery and wanted to destroy the confederate states

Dred scott V. Stanford

a landmark decision that held the u.s constitution did not extend american citizenship to people of black african descent and therefore they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the constitution conferred upon american citizens

Secession

formal withdrawal of a group from a political entry

Abraham Lincoln

16th president his election was one of the primary reasons war broke out the following year because lincoln did not take a stance on slavery