Ch. 15 Review

Those who believed that slavery was unjust and should end immediately

• abolitionists

• radicals

• overseers

• fugitives

having prejudice based on race

• sovereignty

• abolition

• racism

• platform

a bill to outlaw slavery in any territory the US acquired from the War with Mexico

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Wilmot Proviso

This party's slogan was "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men"

• Whig Party

• Democratic Party

• Free-Soil Party

• Republican Party

a statement of beliefs

• platform

• slogan

• bill

• act

"the great compromiser"

• Abraham Lincoln

• Daniel Webster

• Henry Clay

• Stephen A. Douglas

a series of laws proposed to settle the major disagreements between slave and free states

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Wilmot Proviso

created to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves

• Crittenden Plan

• Republican Party

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Thomas Paine

• Frederick Douglass

a system where residents vote to decide an issue

• arsenal

• republicanism

• manifest destiny

• popular sovereignty