Chapter 14 History

Cotton Whigs.

set off a panic throughout the slaveholding South.

sweeping the free states.

it was the site of a federal arsenal.

offered a strong temptation to kidnap free blacks in northern "free" states.

the southern secessionists were convinced that Lincoln would move against slavery despite his assurances otherwise.

Popular sovereignty encouraged violence-prone supporters and opponents of slavery to flood Kansas.

strengthened the Fugitive Slave Law.

The strain of the Kansas-Nebraska Act pushed northern and southern members toward joining different parties.

John Brown's raid.

provoke slave insurrections.

was fanatically committed to fight to protect the institution of slavery.

Henry Clay pushed for the compromise and national harmony.

implied that the Missouri Compromise had been unconstitutional.

the concept of popular sovereignty.

create a population with an equal balance of men and women.

Blacks did not have citizenship and therefore lacked legal standing.

He claimed that living for extended periods in areas where slavery was forbidden made him free.

might allow slavery in Kansas and Nebraska.

would allow people in the territories to decide whether or not to permit slavery.

made Brooks a hero in much of the South.

showed how the brutal realities of slavery harmed everyone associated with it.

would prohibit slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico.