Chapter 14 Vocabulary

this term is used to describe the blood shed between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers as they tried to use popular sovereignty to determine free/slave status

• Bleeding Missouri
• Bleeding Nebraska
• Bleeding Illinois
• Bleeding Kansas

newspapers and books were often used as tools to spread one group's beliefs whether they were true or not, this is called

• journalism
• advertising
• propaganda
• censorship

the group was formed to give abolition a voice and choose Abraham Lincoln as its candidate for the election of 1860

• Republican Party
• Whig Party
• Liberty Party
• Democratic Party

this individual wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a book that characterized the institution of slavery and showed Americans the evils involved

• Louisa May Alcott
• Emily Dickinson
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Mark Twain

this term refers to the people that escaped from slavery illegally and migrated to the North

• Northern Refugees
• Runaway Workers
• Slave Defectors
• fugitive

this term refers to the deal made that admitted California as free and allowed the South to have a fugitive slave act

• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision

this individual from Illinois fought hard to make sure that slavery did not expand and won popularity for his arguments through a series of debates

• Frederick Douglass
• Stephen Douglas
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln

this term means to leave the union

• integration
• unionism
• secession
• cooperation

this term means that a group has the ability to vote/choose for themselves (ex: on whether or not to have slavery)

• popular sovereignty
• autonomy
• self-determination
• federalism

this individual erased any protections that existed against slavery when he read the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case

• Abraham Lincoln
• Frederick Douglass
• Roger Taney

• Ulysses S. Grant