Key Terms from The Union in Peril Flashcards

How well do you know the Key terms from The Union in Peril? Slavery was a major issue in the U.S, and if you have had the chance to read through the book, these flashcards may be of help to help you review what new words you may have learned in the process. Be sure to read through them and check out the quizzes that follow!

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A movement against the extension of slavery into the West so that White settlers wouldn't have Black competition
Free-soil movement
Party whose objectives were the prevention of slave expansion into the West, free homesteads, and internal improvements
Free-soil party
Whigs who opposed slavery
Conscience Whigs
Antislavery Democrats
"barnburners"
Allowing settlers to vote whether the land they settle should be free or slave
Popular sovereignty
Democratic senator from Michigan who proposed popular sovereignty
Lewis Cass
Man who proposed the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
President who supported the immediate admission of CA and NM as free states despite being a Southern slaveholder himself
Zachary Taylor
Compromise that suggested CA be admitted as a free state, ban slave trade in the District of Columbia but allow current slaves to be held, and adopt a rigorously enforced Fugitive Slave Law; held the nation together a little longer
Compromise of 1850
Senator from IL who engineered that the Compromise of 1850 be passed in parts separately
Stephen A. Douglas
Strong supporter of the Compromise of 1850 who came into the Presidency after Taylor's sudden death in 1850.
Millard Fillmore
Chief purpose was to track down runaway slaves and return them to Southern owners; persuaded Southerners to accept CA's admission as a free state, but was bitterly opposed by anti-slave supporters in the North
Fugitive Slave Law
Secret network that helped escaped slaves reach freedom in the North or Canada
Underground Railroad
Escaped slave who made at least 19 trips to the South in order to help some 300 slaves escape bondage
Harriet Tubman
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe