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Cards In This Set
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popular sovereignty
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government subject to the will of the people before the civil War, the idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there.
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secession
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withdrawal from the Union
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transcontinental railroad
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a railway system extending across the continent
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survival
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the continuation of life or existence
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perception
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the capacity, degree, and accuracy of one's consciousness, awareness , or comprehension
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Wilmot Proviso
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a proposed addition to a war appropriations bill; the Amendment proposed that in any territory the United States gained from Mexico slavery would not exist.
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Free-soil party
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Conscience Whigs joined antislavery Democrats to form to join with liberty parties.
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"forty niners"
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the thousands of people who headed to California in 1849 to find gold
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Gadsden purchase
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the U.S paid Mexico 10 million for a strip of land along the southern edge of the present day state of Arizona and New Mexico
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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a law passed by congress in 1854 that contradicted the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers in the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide whether or not to permit slavery
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Furgitive Slave Act
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a law requiring all citizens to help catch runaway slaves, the law fined or imprisoned anyone who aided a fugitive
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Underground Railroad
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a system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the south to freedom in the North.
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Harriet Tubman
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an enslaved woman who escaped to freedom in the North; called Moses of her people, she returned to the South 19 times to help other enslaved people escape.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which humanized the plight of the enslaved.
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Compromise of 1850
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a final settlement between the North and the South which eased tensions over slavery
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