US History - Chapter 13

The idea that political power belongs to the people   

• Wilmot proviso
• Sectionalism
• Popular Sovereignty 
• Compromise of 1850 

A document stating that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the Mexican Session

• Sectionalism
• Wilmot Proviso
• Popular Sovereignty 
• Compromise of 1850

A plan that would divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into 2 sections and allow popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise
• Wilmot Proviso

Document that stated California could enter as a free state and the Mexican Session would decide on slavery by popular sovereignty

• Compromise of 1850
• Sectionalism
• Wilmot Proviso
• Missouri Compromise

Antislavery Northerners formed a new party, which supported the Wilmot Proviso

• Republican Party
• Democratic Party
• Free-Soil Party
• Whig Party

An Act that made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas

• Missouri Compromise 
• Compromise of 1850
• Slave Act
• Fugitive Slave Act

The Democtratic Nominee, and winner of the 1852 election

• Zachary Taylor 
• Franklin Pierce
• William Henry Harrison
• James K. Polk

Congressman in the 1840’s that wanted to build a railroad to the Pacific from Chicago

• Zachary Taylor 
• Franklin Peirce
• William Henry Harrison
• Stephen Douglas

This person beat Charles Sumner with a cane on the Senate floor 

• Frederick Douglass
• Stephen Douglas
• Preston Brooks
• Andrew Pickens Butler   

Who wrote the book, Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Harriet Tubman
• Sojourner Truth
• Simon Legree